[mythtv-users] Replace my database with a "stock" one

[Bill Meek]

On 06/04/2014 08:42 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:58:08PM -0500, Frank Phillips wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Rob Owens <rowens at ptd.net> wrote:
>>>> From: "Frank Phillips" <frankalso at gmail.com>
>>>> On Jun 2, 2014 8:28 PM, "Rob Owens" < rowens at ptd.net > wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:22:08PM -0500, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Will Dormann < wdormann at gmail.com >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/2/14, 12:22 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
>>>>>>>> Mythfilldatabase no longer runs automatically (but it works when
>>> I
>>>>>>>> run
>>>>>>> it manually).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I ran into this myself. In the end I just ended up adding a cron
>>> job to
>>>>>>> do it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a patch at
>>> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12101#comment:1 to
>>>>>> fix that. If you don't want to patch you can set the mfdb run window
>>> to
>>>>>> 0-23 in mythtv-setup. Also see the script at the linked
>>>>>> schedulesdirect.org
>>>>>> page to monitor how it's doing.
>>>>>
>>> I've tried the workaround suggested above, but I don't see any log info
>>> indicating that mythfilldatabase is being run.  Which log should I be
>>> looking at?  There is a mythfilldatabase.log but it hasn't been updated
>>> since December, so I'm wondering whether that log file is a leftover from a
>>> previous version of MythTV.  I grepped /var/log/mythtv/* and didn't find
>>> any recent mentions of mythfilldatabase.
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>
>> What does it say in the information center in mythfrontend about listings
>> being updated? You will need to determine what logging options the backend
>> is using: ps -ax | grep mythbackend
>>
> /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --syslog local6 --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
>
> But no mention of mythfilldatabase in /var/log/syslog*
>
>> Do you have "Automatically update program listings checked"?
>
> Yes, I do.

In mythtv-setup, check the setting for: "Guide data program".
If it is set to anything other than: mythfilldatabase, then
the logging options passed from mythbackend won't be used.
For example, if it's /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase, you won't
get any logs.

-- 
Bill