[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase: can't run it from cron

[Dave Sherohman]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 03:33:46PM +0100, James Pattinson wrote:
> Nice one, that seems to work so far - but 
> http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat is 404'ing for me now! 
> I'm sure it was working a few days ago when I last grabbed. Anyone 
> confirm it's working for them at the moment?
> 
> Thanks
> james
> 
> Paul Wheeler wrote:
> 
> >I had this same problem, using -quiet solves it.

Not working for me...  My cron entry for it is

su mythtv -c "mythfilldatabase --quiet"

and I'm still getting considerable output from it.  I tried changing
the --quiet to -quiet and got an error that -quiet was not
recognized, check --help for valid options, so I did that and the
resulting help display shows no verbosity options.

So now I'm thinking to go the brute force route and append a
">/dev/null" to the entry so that it will stop mailing me the output
every morning, but I'm a little concerned about that option...  If I
do this, will it also send information about any errors to the bit
bucket?  Or is mythfilldatabase well-enough behaved to write those to
stderr?


Output of `su mythtv -c "mythfilldatabase --quiet"`, in case it
helps:

2005-09-19 09:43:12.509 New DB connection, total: 1
2005-09-19 09:43:12.544 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-09-19 09:43:12.546 New DB DataDirect connection
--09:43:12--
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
           => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/xml]

    [     <=>                             ] 150,500       68.67K/s             

09:43:16 (68.61 KB/s) - `-' saved [150500]

Your subscription expires on 12/11/2005 02:18:39 AM
2005-09-19 09:43:24.422 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-09-19 09:43:24.424 New DB connection, total: 4
--09:43:27--
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
           => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/xml]

    [    <=>                              ] 123,897       60.19K/s             

09:43:31 (60.16 KB/s) - `-' saved [123897]

Your subscription expires on 12/11/2005 02:18:39 AM
2005-09-19 09:43:37.116 New DB connection, total: 5
2005-09-19 09:43:41.215 Connecting to backend server:
192.168.25.191:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2005-09-19 09:43:41.223 Using protocol version 15

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