Question about minidlna command line

[telnetdoogie]

Is there a way to stop / start the minidlna service from the command line?

Also, is there a way to tell minidlna to do a rescan of folders from the command line?

I've been doing a kill, followed by a delete of the files.db, followed by executing minidlna, which seems to work; I was wondering though if there's a more elegant way to have it re-scan folders or re-read the config file.

Thanks!

[Skywalker]

No, currently there's no more elegant way to force a rescan. Ideally, you should only have to do a full rescan once, and inotify should pick up any changes after that.

[telnetdoogie]

OK. Cool. I have no problem with there not being a way - for this device it doesn't make much sense anyway. - I just couldn't stand not knowing

[Segran]

inotify is not included in the NV+ V2, so to me this is still an issue. Now I have to turn off and turn on to make a re-scan.

[mdgm]

This should work (don't know if there's a better way):

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start-stop-daemon -q -o -K -n minidlna -R 5
sleep 10
rm -f /var/cache/minidlna/*
sleep 10
start-stop-daemon -q -S --exec /usr/sbin/minidlna


Please don't revive threads that have been dead for a long time. Best to start a new thread in future.

[audetto]

This should work (don't know if there's a better way):

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start-stop-daemon -q -o -K -n minidlna -R 5
sleep 10
rm -f /var/cache/minidlna/*
sleep 10
start-stop-daemon -q -S --exec /usr/sbin/minidlna


Finally someone answers this question. Thank you!
Is this what is behind the button in the Frontview web page?
I tried to follow the html, but I got lost.

So basically, minidlna will recreate the db when it starts if it is not there.
Makes sense.

Would still be good to have some unofficial approval from the Jedis! Cant believe it is such a secret thing.

[mdgm]

I don't know what the button in Frontview/Dashboard does but it's probably pretty similar.

The start-stop-daeamon commands above are the same as what is used in an official add-on. I did have an add-on available to do this on the ARM units which some found helpful before there was an option added in the Dashboard to do it.

[DeltaTee]

Thanks for this information. I have been looking for it for years.

[Belcik]

/usr/sbin/minidlna -h

and afterwards: /usr/sbin/minidlna -R

Should work, at least this is how is described in code:

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      case 'R':
         snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "rm -rf %s/files.db %s/art_cache", db_path, db_path);
         if( system(buf) != 0 )
            DPRINTF(E_WARN, L_GENERAL, "Failed to clean old file cache.\n");
         break;

[audetto]

Do I need to stop the running minidlna first or I just do

minidlna -R

and there are no conflicts with the instances already running?