[mythtv-users] Built In Mythfilldatabase Automation

[Stephen Tait]

I'd just like to add that I'm having the exact same problem; 
mythfilldatabase only inserts data into the DB when I run it as root. 
MythBackend is running as user mythtv (with the DB hosted on a different 
machine - all permissions seem to be OK...?); running mythfilldatabase as 
user mythtv also doesn't make any inserts into the DB. As you would expect 
in this situation, the automated mythfilldatabase in Myth doesn't work 
either, and I've never been able to get the cron to work either - it runs, 
but again doesn't insert any info into the DB.

Is there some kind of permissions issue I'm unaware of?

It's not much of a problem, but I'm curious as to the problem. FWIW, I'm 
using the UK bleb grabber, and it doesn't seem to barf any entries into 
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log

Actually, now I look at it, I see the last entry in the mythbackend log was 
almost a month ago. Something very weird going on here...

*toddles off to check permissions*

At 12:50 08/07/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>I was struggling with the relatively new built in mythfilldatabase
>automation not running at all until last week when the issue with the
>housekeeping table was uncovered and resolved.  Now, it runs
>automatically at the scheduled time, but the new issue is that it
>doesn't do anything.  It runs and I get a log file generated by it, but
>it doesn't put anything in the database.  In the log file, I see
>references to dates that are weird, Like November 25th, and February
>something.
>
>I also see a line that reads:  wget: unrecognized option
>`--post-file=/tmp/mythpost8HMyHY'
>
>The status page in Mythweb reads with the same typical language:  "Last
>mythfilldatabase run started on 2004-07-07 17:03 and ended on
>2004-07-07 17:03. mythfilldatabase ran, but did not insert any new data
>into the Guide. This can indicate a potential grabber failure."
>
>If I just log into the machine and run mythfilldatabase manually, it
>works perfectly.  I'm using datadirect.
>
>Any thoughts?