linhes-system: add script mythfrontend-start

This is a slightly modified version from the one provided in the ticket.
This version will call mythvantage -q "$question" and depending on the answer will
either start a new mfe or quit.

closes #389

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/abs/core-testing/LinHES-system/mythfrontend-start b/abs/core-testing/LinHES-system/mythfrontend-start
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+#!/bin/bash
+PIDS=$(pidof mythfrontend)
+P_array=( $PIDS )
+let "instances = ${#P_array[*]}"  # Count elements.
+
+if [ $instances -gt 0 ];
+then
+    if [ $instances -eq 1 ]; then
+        diagtext="is already a MythFrontend"
+    else
+        diagtext="are already $instances MythFrontends"
+    fi
+
+    question="There $diagtext running. Do you really want to start another one?"  
+    mythvantage -q "${question}"
+    if [ $?  = 16 ] 
+    then
+        mythfrontend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log
+    fi
+else
+    mythfrontend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log
+fi