[mythtv-users] Automatic mythfilldatabase runs to Schedules Direct seem to be frequently failing

[Michael Stucky]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Michael Stucky <mike at stucky.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> mythfilldatabase --dd-grab-all --logpath /var/log/mythtv
>>
>
> Just a note...updated the wrapper scrip with this a few days back and the
> mythfilldatabase log hasn't been updated since the16th, even though the
> script has run.
>
> Does the user that runs the script (mythtv if run as a userjob?) have
permission to write to the /var/log/mythtv directory?  If you use --logpath
for all of your mythtv logging then the owner of that directory should be
"mythtv   adm". If the owner is "syslog   adm" then you need to change
"--logpath /var/log/mythtv" to "--syslog local7" in your script.
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