[mythtv-users] Confusion about mythfilldatabase running automatically

[James Le Cuirot]

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:38:29 -0400
"Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> On 10/01/2007 04:37 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Mythfilldatabase
> >
> > This wiki page says that mythfilldatabase is "normally" run
> > automatically by mythbackend every 24 hours. However, the
> > configuration page for running it automatically is located in
> > mythfrontend rather than mythtv-setup. So which is it? Possibly
> > both? My box isn't dedicated to MythTV so I don't run mythfrontend
> > all the time.
> 
> It's definitely mythbackend that runs it (I've seen the code :).  It
> just happens to be a global configuration setting because
> mythfilldatabase should /only/ be run by the master backend, so there
> is no reason to put it in a host-specific mythtv-setup configuration
> screen.  It was probably put in mythfrontend settings to make it
> easier to access than it would be if in mythtv-setup.

Thanks for that. I guess the best way to explain the difference between
the two would be to say that mythtv-setup deals with backend
configuration changes that should ideally only be made when the backend
isn't running, while mythfrontend deals with backend configuration
changes that can only be made when the backend is running. Is that
accurate?

James