[mythtv-users] Problem with mythfilldatabase

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed May 7 22:42:20 UTC 2008


On 05/07/2008 06:21 PM, Chris J. Friesen wrote:
>   I am running a MythTV 0.20.2 setup on Ubuntu Feisty pulling listing data from
> Schedules Direct for almost a year and it has been running great.
>
>   However, I'm not sure when it started (I only noticed it was happening about
> a month ago), but mythfilldatabase doesn't seem to be checking for updates to
> tomorrows listings and not updating the schedule.
>
>   I have attached the log file from my nightly cronjob.
>   
...
>   Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this and/or how to
> fix it?

I suspect the cron job is using the wrong arguments for 
mythfilldatabase.  The /right/ fix is to let mythbackend run 
mythfilldatabase for you rather than using a cron.  Doing so also 
ensures it gets run at the time suggested by the provider.

Mike



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