Comment 5 for bug 1186587

Here is the contents of my file though it is not where you stated (/var/log/mythtv-backend.conf). The only file of this name is located in /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf here is what it has in it:

# MythTV Backend service

description "MythTV Backend"
author "Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>"

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

#should die within 5 seconds, but we don't want data loss, so set it to 30
#before we send SIGKILL
kill timeout 30

#if we crash, but not quickly
respawn
respawn limit 2 3600

#because we're daemonizing to avoid logging to upstart log
expect fork

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 >/dev/null && exit 0
       sleep .5
    done
end script

script
 test -f /etc/default/locale && . /etc/default/locale || true
 LANG=$LANG exec /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv --daemon
end script