On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:32:54AM -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: > I think the OP (original poster) meant by not recording a program > even if its scheduled. Sort of an override to not record. May be a > script which checks the load or just a file/database entry. > > It can be as simple as > > user$> cp /dev/null /myth/not_record_right_now > > #### recording precheck script #### > > if (-f /myth/not_record_right_now) then > ### log an entry in mythlog so user know the recording has been overriden > exit > endif > #### continue with the recording ######## > > ---- user at a later time ----- > user$> rm /myth/not_record_right_now
I really must be missing something. If he doesn't want MythTV to use up any CPU, why not just stop mythbackend, then? --Rob
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