Shell script to restart minidlna

[josh.zyman]

Hi,

I am looking for a way to restart minidlna using shell on my Asus RT-AC68U.
I noticed that minidlna has some options: start, stop, restart, reload, force-reload, status, but I am not able to call them.

I tried this line, but it doesn't work.

/usr/sbin/minidlna restart
[2014/01/31 22:39:42] minidlna.c:791: fatal: Unknown option: restart

Any ideeas?

 

[Klyken]

The commands are like this

/usr/sbin/minidlna -f /path/to/minidlna.conf

or if you want to rebuild the database at start.

/usr/sbin/minidlna -R -f /path/to/minidlna.conf

These are the default paths

/tmp/etc/minidlna.conf
/var/cache/minidlna/files.db
/var/cache/minidlna/minidlna.log
/var/cache/minidlna/art_cache

The status page is at

http://192.168.1.1:8200/

or you can use this to parse the interesting bits on Tools>Run Cmd or putty.

wget -O - http://192.168.1.1:8200/ 2>/dev/null | grep -o "[A-Va-u]\{5\} [e-s]\{5\}: [0-9]\{1,\}"

Result

Audio files: 1
Video files: 2
Image files: 3

 

[josh.zyman]

I tried and it does not work.

/tmp/mnt/Stocare# /usr/sbin/minidlna -R /etc/minidlna.conf
[2014/02/01 18:07:25] minidlna.c:791: fatal: Unknown option: /etc/minidlna.conf

the file is there and I am able to open it with nano and all seems OK, but it does not work.

 

[RMerlin]

I tried and it does not work.

/tmp/mnt/Stocare# /usr/sbin/minidlna -R /etc/minidlna.conf
[2014/02/01 18:07:25] minidlna.c:791: fatal: Unknown option: /etc/minidlna.conf

the file is there and I am able to open it with nano and all seems OK, but it does not work.

Check your command line, you forgot a "-f" argument in there versus what was mentioned in the previous message.