[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct - Cliff's Notes?

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/7/2014 12:11 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 10/07/2014 01:36 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> ...
> > Well now I'm confused. My crontab entry looks like:
>>
>> ... /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --remove-new-channels --dd-grab-all
>>
>> So if that doesn't work with the DNS or /etc/hosts fix what is the 
>> answer?
>
> Hi,
>
> Not sure why you didn't take Gary's suggestion to report in the:
>
>     Schedules Direct DataDirect replacement service testing
>
> thread. But in any case, I ran a test with --remove-new-channels
> (because I never tested that option.) It worked OK.
>
> Rather than use, cron, I'd suggest running from the command line
> like this:
>
>      mythfilldatabase --dd-grab-all --logpath /tmp --loglevel debug -v 
> file,network
>
> Be sure you don't have a stale /tmp/mythtv_ddp_data file owned by
> root 1st. I'm not even sure that's the correct name for 0.24.
>
> The output will be in /tmp and should be put in a pastebin for
> all to review. Could be that there's nothing to see, or maybe
> there is. Can't tell without looking. I'd also include your
> /etc/hosts entry.
>

Will do. There's a post from R.G. Newbury I can tail off of.