[tunefix] Automatic channel organisation and maintenance

[Black Hole]

Tunefix will reboot at 3am if there are changes to be applied (and the box isn't busy).

Aha! I wasn't expecting it to be applied until I chose to reboot.

You omitted this crucial snippet originally.

Sorry about that, and I don't recall at what stage I made the revision, but I guess it must have been before I sent you the config file. I had forgotten all about it until now.

The original settings were inherited from when tunefix had been installed previously. If they are purely text based, I presume there was some subtle difference to the channel namings which escaped my attention.

 

[SemiRamis]

It seems that the previous owner's tunefix/update has taken over my newly tuned hdr and promptly deleted the lot. Including about 3 scheduled programs. How do I prevent this from happening again?

 

[Black Hole]

How do I prevent this from happening again?

Uninstall the tunefix package!

Alternatively, if you want to keep tunefix, clear out its settings and set up your own requirements.

tunefix-update is nothing to do with it.

 

[prpr]

How do I prevent this from happening again?

A sensible person would have flattened somebody else's machine i.e. formatted the disk and cleared the flash.

 

[SemiRamis]

A sensible person would have flattened somebody else's machine i.e. formatted the disk and cleared the flash.

Replace sensible with computeratti and you've got it bang on.

 

[SemiRamis]

Uninstall the tunefix package!

Alternatively, if you want to keep tunefix, clear out its settings and set up your own requirements.

tunefix-update is nothing to do with it.

Thank you. That's what I did about 10 minutes after I posted the above.

 

[Black Hole]

Tunefix config is in flash, not on the hard disk

Out of curiosity: why? Is that because the data is needed before the HDD has spun up?

Perhaps there is a case to be made for syncing the flash data with a shadow file on HDD, for ease of recovery should that be needed.

 

[prpr]

Out of curiosity: why? Is that because the data is needed before the HDD has spun up?

Yep. The humaxtv binary spins up the disk, and tunefix needs to work to modify the databases before the humaxtv binary runs.

Perhaps there is a case to be made for syncing the flash data with a shadow file on HDD, for ease of recovery should that be needed.

Then people would edit the wrong one and complain that their changes keep getting overwritten. Or transplant a disk in to a 'new' machine with residual config. (as up-thread) and the backup file would get overwritten anyway. It's not worth the aggro.

 

[/df]

... and the box isn't busy ...

... except "busy showing a programme" (since that's always true).

 

[Black Hole]

Then people would edit the wrong one and complain that their changes keep getting overwritten. Or transplant a disk in to a 'new' machine with residual config. (as up-thread) and the backup file would get overwritten anyway. It's not worth the aggro.

The way I see it, the on-disk version would be the master, and the flash version the slave.