[mythtv-users] mirobridge cron and ubuntu 9.10

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sat Mar 20 20:57:28 UTC 2010


On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Doug Vaughan <r.d.vaughan at rogers.com> wrote:
> Eric and Jack,
>
> Try running this as your cron command:
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/mirobridge.py -V  >>
> "/tmp/mirobridge.log 2>&1
>
> The other "env `dbus-launch` sh -c 'trap "kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID" EXIT
> ..." commands were added as some users had issues. Mythbuntu has the extra
> statements added as up to now they have not caused any issues. Again some
> installs require the extra dbus related commands and some do not. Maybe you
> will be among those that do not need the extra dbus statements.
>
> See this link for the issue that the dbus statements are addressing:
> http://www.estamos.de/blog/2009/05/08/running-syncevolution-as-cron-job/
>

Just to be safe, you can also move this:

>> "/tmp/mirobridge.log" 2>&1

to:

2>&1 >> /tmp/microbridge.log

-Greg


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