[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase and rex tv_grab_au script home dirissue.

Dawson, Guy Guy.Dawson at eu.sony.com
Tue Aug 22 08:50:41 UTC 2006


> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael Carmody
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase and rex tv_grab_au 
> script home dirissue.
> 
> The rex 1.2.1 script has beenfailing for me because it seems 
> to be being passed a weird location for the config file or 
> cannot determine the home dir for the path.
> 
> I get an output of:
> Configuration
> -------------
> Config file: //.mythtv/NineMSN.xmltv
> Cache file : /.rex/cache.dat
> Output file: /tmp/mythaMEFhI
> TimeZone   : +1000
> Region ID  :
> Pay Region : 0
> Days wanted: 5 (offset: 0)
> Subscribed channels:
> 
> Aborting configuration.
> 
> In which tv-grab-au rex is not being passed a valid config 
> file and so launches the --configuration side of things.
> 
> Whis mythfilldatabase passing this config file ?
> The Cache file weirdness i tracked down to ENV{HOME}, and 
> hardcoded it to get the correct cache file path, but can't 
> seem to find where the config fiel is picking up or being 
> passed  to correct it. 
> 
> What is weird about my setup that does not affect others ? My 
> mfdb is scheduled from within Myth, do others do differently ?
> 
> -Michael

Micheal

According
http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-February/076385.html,
if you are using atrpms, then mythbackend runs as root, but it's home
directory is / rather than /root.  This means that when mythfilldatabase
is run it will look for /.mythtv/<video_source_name>.xmltv.  I fixed
mine by symlinking /.mythtv/ => /root/.mythtv,  because I expect to
forget things ( I had already symlinked the config files into
/root/.mythtv from /home/mythtv/.mythtv).

Hope this helps


Guy

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