[mythtv] RE: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_na_dd backportdatato.14system?

[Jim Bauer]

On Sunday 23 May 2004 00:36, Matthew Mead wrote:
> OK, hopefully this is my last reply on this.
>
> 1. I setup a crontab -e and changed from this:
>
> ### Run mythfilldatabase every night at some random time after 2:30am
> 30 2 * * * sleep $(expr $RANDOM \% 7200) && mythfilldatabase >
> /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 2>&1
>
> To this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ##su mythtv -c "mythfilldatabase --quiet"
> 10 1 * * * su mythtv -c "/usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabasecron_dd"
>
> I then went to the /usr/local/bin directory, su to root, and created
> mythfilldatabasecron_dd
>
> I put this in it:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>     #/usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabasecron_dd
>
>     # temporary filename
>     dirname='/tmp'
>     filename="tv-${RANDOM}${RANDOM}"
>     xml_file=${dirname}/${filename}.xml
>
>     # From step 8
>     sourceid=1
>
>     # replace all data
>     offset=-1
>
>     # How many days worth of guide data to download
>     numdays=10
>
>     /usr/bin/tv_grab_na_dd --output ${xml_file} --days ${numdays} \
>                            --old-chan-id && \
>     /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --file ${sourceid} ${offset} ${xml_file}
>
>     # Remove the temporary file
>     rm ${xml_file}
>
> I then saved it and gave the following command to make it excutable:
>
> chmod +x mythfilldatabasecron_dd
>
>
> Does that look right? or do I need to adjust my cron job time or add a
> timer to the other two lines where I have #'s at?

Looks ok to me.  The sleep was there so everyone that used that identical 
entry wasn't hitting the server at the same time.