[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase question

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Jul 7 11:51:31 EDT 2003


On Monday 07 July 2003 09:15 am, Shirley, Mark R wrote:
> I got the system configured and compiled correctly (I think)
> And I ran mythfilldatabase last night.  It took over 12 hours
> to grab 8 days data.  Is this normal for a dialup connection?

Probably.  It's quite a bit of data to grab.

> I figured it was about 1.5 hrs per day downloaded.  That seems
> like a lot.  Any way to shorten it?

Nope.

> Also, when I set the cron job to update every day at 3am, it didn't
> run, but said it couldn't find .xmltv file.  Am I correct in that
> since the configuration WinTv1.xmltv file was/is run by user myth,
> and the cron job is run by root, that this won't work?  I need to run
> a user cron job to update right?

Yup.

Isaac


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