[mythtv-users] Why is my cron job not backing up my database?

[Bill Meek]

On 05/09/2012 10:33 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
...
> [mythtv at localhost backup]$ more /home/mythtv/.mythtv/backuprc
> DBBackupDirectory=/home/mythtv/.mythtv/backup
>
> And the command works from the command line.  It just seems that none
> of my cronjobs are functioning.

But isn't your cron job running as root? If so, there
should be a similar entry in ~root/.mythtv.

At least that would explain why cron fails and command line works.

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Bill