[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase runs twice

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Apr 5 02:56:15 UTC 2006


On Apr 4, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Phill Wiggin wrote:

> My backend runs MFD twice every day: Once at 6:01am, and once at the
> time requested by Zap2it.  This box has gone through a couple of
> MythTV upgrades, and in .18, at least, I was using a cron job to fetch
> listings (at 6am-ish).
>
> Upon updating to .19, I enabled the 'Honor requested update time'
> option via my frontend, and removed the cron job that I used with .18.
>  Since then, I've been getting messages in my log that show it runs at
> the requested time. but it also runs at 6am.
>
> I've used `crontab -e` to be sure that all user crontabs are clear
> (and checked /etc for cronfiles), ran the frontend software on my
> backend and made sure the 'Honor' flag was toggled on, and I've
> checked my settings table in mythconverg and can't find anything
> conspicuous.
>
> But, I'm still left with dual updates every day.  Could there be any
> leftovers (from .16-.18) in mythconverg that may be causing this?  Any
> other ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Phill W.

Check your crontab for root and your mythtv user. Just a hunch.



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