[mythtv-users] Mythlink.pl & Recordings Directory

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/19/2014 05:12 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
> On 20 Nov 2014, at 5:56 am, "Matt Emmott" wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:16 PM, jim wrote:
>>> I would like to point mythlink.pl to a directory other than the the mythtv-default location, /var/lib/mythtv/recordings. I am totally new to perl and am not sure what to change in mythlink.pl to achieve this goal. Any gurus out there that can share a "perl" of wisdom on this? Thanks.
>> I'm at work so this is from memory, but can't you just run mythlink.pl --link "/destination/of/symlink" ?
> It appears Matt is correct. See here for more usage details:
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl

To add a bit more information that may be more of an answer to the 
question you wanted to ask (though you may not have had the information 
needed to ask it correctly), my guess is that what you describe as "the 
mythtv-default location, /var/lib/mythtv/recordings" is actually the 
location at which some package-provided script on a package-configured 
cron job is creating links for you (because the mythlink.pl default 
location is actually a subdirectory called "show_names" under one of the 
directories in one of the Storage Groups defined on your system).  So, 
really you probably just need to edit the cron job to specify the 
desired --link/--destination/--path argument.

Mike