[mythtv-users] Help with cron, kppp, and mythfilldatabase

Dennis Gilmore dennis at dgilmore.net
Thu Dec 15 21:31:53 EST 2005


On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:33, Beny Spensieri Jr wrote:
> I am having problems with cron not running my setup to
> update the mythtv schedule database using dial-up.
>

> The mythdata file executes the following command upon
> connect:
>
> mythfilldatabase;kppp -k
>

the problem is that cron executes your script without the environment setup  
so  you need to put the full path to mythfilldatabase and kppp in your script  
it should then work as expected from the cron job

Dennis


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