MYTHJOBQUEUE(1)

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🌈 MYTHJOBQUEUE(1) — User Commands 💅

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to learn mythjobqueue and honestly? it's giving quietly essential. ✨

💖 NAME 💖

mythjobqueue — the MythTV Job Queue manager, no cap 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so real talk, here's the version tea you need to know:

mythjobqueue version: fixes/36
[v36.0+fixes.20260401.1385cbfc60-0ubuntu3] www.mythtv.org

mythjobqueue is a daemon implementing the job queue. The whole entire point of it is that you can use it as additional processing power without requiring a full backend. like, you get the muscle without dragging the whole backend along for the ride. iconic behavior fr fr. 👑

🎀 Misc. Options 🎀

the little side-quest flags, iykyk:

  • -d, --daemon — forks the application into the background after startup. bye, she's living her own life now 🫶
  • -O, --override-setting — lets you override a single setting, and you define that setting with a key=value pair.
  • --override-settings-file — points to a file full of key=value pairs to be loaded in as setting overrides. bulk overrides, we love efficiency 💅
  • -p, --pidfile — writes the PID of the application to filename.
  • -h, --help, --usage — displays this help printout, or gives you detailed information about a selected option. the girlies love a deep dive 🔍
  • --version — displays version information.

✨ Logging Options ✨

now for the part where she tells you everything she's thinking:

  • --loglevel — sets the logging level. all log messages at lower levels will be discarded. in descending order, the levels are: emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug, trace. it defaults to info.
  • --loglong — uses the long log format for the console, i.e. it shows the file, line number, etc. in the console log. receipts, basically 🧾
  • --logpath — writes logging messages to a file in the directory logpath, with filenames in this format: applicationName.date.pid.log. this is typically used in combination with --daemon, and if you use it in combination with --pidfile, it can be used with log rotators, using the HUP call to inform MythTV to reload the file.
  • -q, --quiet — don't log to the console (-q). don't log anywhere (-q -q). double quiet = full silence, she's not texting back 📵
  • --syslog — sets the syslog logging facility. set it to "none" to disable, and it defaults to none.
  • --systemd-journal — uses systemd-journal instead of syslog.
  • -v, --verbose — specifies log filtering. use -v help for the level info.
lowkey important reminder bestie: --loglevel throws away everything below the level you pick, so don't come crying when your debug messages ghosted you 😭 also don't forget --syslog defaults to none — she's off unless you turn her on. 🙈

and that's the whole page, periodt 💖✨

this queen is mythjobqueue 36.0+fixes.202604..., dated August 2026, and she's filed right back under MYTHJOBQUEUE(1). slay, go queue some jobs. 🌸🦋💜

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