cat mythtv-backend.conf
# MythTV Backend service

description     "MythTV Backend"
author          "Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com>"

start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo and started udev-finish)  # Note 1.
stop on runlevel [016]

#expect fork
kill timeout 10
respawn
respawn limit 2 3600

pre-start script
    [ -x /usr/sbin/mysqld ] || exit 0
    for i in `seq 1 30` ; do
       /usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf ping && exit 0
       sleep .5
    done
end script

script
        ulimit -c unlimited                                                       # Note 2.
        test -f /etc/default/locale && . /etc/default/locale || true              # Note 3.
        ARGS="--logpath /var/log/mythtv"                                          # Note 4. (pick 1)
        sleep 5                                                                   # Note 5.
        test -f /etc/default/mythtv-backend && . /etc/default/mythtv-backend || true
        LANG=$LANG exec /usr/local/bin/mythbackend --user mythtv $ARGS $EXTRA_ARGS
end script
nwayno@Willy:/etc/init