[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase using incorrect xmltv parameters

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 16:07:55 UTC 2016


On 04/29/2016 10:44 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
> Zitat von Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 04/28/2016 10:31 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
...
>>> which doesn't work of course, because the the grabber doesn't know about "--verbose general --loglevel info --quiet --syslog local7" which are
>>> mythfilldatabase arguments, not xmltv's.
>>
>> You could try putting the full path e.g. /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase in place of
>> just mythfilldatabase because that will ignore the *logging* options that were
>> set when mythbackend was started (or changed with --setverbose.) Doing so won't
>> change the options passed in MythFillDatabaseArgs.
>
> I didn't understand the explanation, or rather the reasoning for this behaviour, but changing to the full path did the trick.

Short version of the story is that some users were not getting
any mythfilldatabase logging and it was because they had full
pathnames in their settings.

It's explained here: https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12169

-- 
Bill


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