minidlna after reboot

[whiter.walt]

hi,

every time I reboot the almond+, I have to restart the minidlna service to rebuild the database. I think the reason is, that the service starts before the external usb drive has been mounted.
My knowledge about linux systems is very limited. That is why I don't know, where I can set up things for the router start up. Maybe someone could help me out!

cheers

[whiter.walt]

Hi,

i am answering the question by myself for those who are looking for a solution too. There might be a better solution for this problem, but it works for me 
Feel free to propose better approaches!

I put an empty file "ismounted" on my usb drive, which I will check in a shell script on router startup, if it exists. When the file exists the minidlna service gets reloaded

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#!/bin/bash

while : ; do
    [[ -f "/path/to/usbdrive/ismounted" ]] && break
    sleep 1
done

/etc/init.d/minidlna reload

Let's assume the script name is "startdlna". Move it to "/etc/init.d/". To run the script during startup you have to put a symbolic link to "/etc/rc.d/". I think these scripts are executed in alphabetical order. So I named the link "S99startdlna".

Create the symbolic link as follows:

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ln -s /etc/init.d/startdlna /etc/rc.d/S99startdlna

cheers!

[whiter.walt]

since Firmware R066 "/etc/rc.local" contains a line to restart the minidlna service, which does not solve the problem. the minidlna service still contains an empty database after startup.

[LGNilsson]

I've reported this as a bug to the software team.