OzTivo Image V1.5 - rc.sysinit.author

[thomson]

In other word shouldn't there location be specified?

While it is best to put the full path in to make it clear what is being run it is not necessary. In the instance where no path is given most operating systems will search for the executable using the PATH environment variable, and run the first match it comes across.

This is likely to be set in one of the startup scripts, you can search for it by doing a "grep PATH= /etc/rc.d/rc.*". To display the current setting you can use "echo $PATH". You will find that many of the system "bin" directories will be specified in this "search path".

A quick example would be: If PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/var/hack/bin, and the command "cron" was issued, then it would first try /usr/bin/cron, then /usr/local/bin/cron and finally /var/hack/bin/cron. If non of these matched then it would return with an "unknown command" error.

Hope this helped.

[argo]

Thanks thomson, reminds me of DOS batch programming - so PATH would explain, why cron (which did not have a path specified either) worked last night (carrying out a daily_call).

This means I need to look elsewhere for my non-functional trickey! Has anybody else had problems getting this to work?

[petestrash]

If you try ps ax you can see if trickey is running.

There is a known error in the IP display code of /hack/etc/trickey.conf (CLR should be CLEAR). See KnownIssuesCurrentImageRelease

There are only 3 tricks loaded (and only 2 work till you fix the above).

# This one will force a daily call
DailyCall       CLEAR,LIVETV,CLEAR          3        /hack/bin/forcedailycall.tc
l &
# This one will display IP address of TiVo
ShowIP       CLEAR,NUM1,CLR           2        newtext2osd -s 15 -t "`ifconfig $
DYNAMIC_NET_DEV | sed 's/.*addr:\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/;t;d'`"
# This will set TiVo in to Maintenance Mode on next reboot
MaintMode       CLEAR,NUM9,NUM1,CLEAR           3        /hack/bin/set_maintenan
ce_mode.sh &

Peter.