[mythtv-users] does myth 'best practice' have me adding anything to cron?

[steve]

> On Mar 22, 2016, at 4:30 PM, John Veness <John.Veness.mythtv at pelago.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On March 22, 2016 5:26:36 AM GMT, steve <stevenospam at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with MythTV 0.27.6 installed via PPA, not
> >mythbuntu
> >
> >Am I supposed to be manually adding anything to cron for myth?
> >
> >For example, am I supposed to be crontabbing the running of
> >mythfilldatabase every so often?
> >
> >I found reference to some other cron files in some other thread, I am
> >guessing mythbuntu-desktop or maybe myth-control-centre created them?:
> >
> >/etc/cron.d/mythbuntu-bare
> >/etc/cron.daily/mythexport
> >/etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database
> >/etc/cron.daily/optimize_mythdb
> >/etc/cron.daily/optimize_mythdb.pl <http://mythdb.pl/>
> >/etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database 
> >
> >Can someone post the contents of these so I can see what they do? 
> >
> >Thank you
> 
> I too am running Ubuntu with mythtv packages installed on top, from the mythbuntu ppa, rather than installing from the mythbuntu ISO. I don't have mythbuntu-desktop installed, but do have mythbuntu-common, mythbuntu-bare-client and mythbuntu-control-center installed. I may have run mythbuntu-control-center in the past, but not for years.
> 
> Of the cron entries you list, I have just:
> /etc/cron.daily/mythexport
> /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database 
> in my system. Using "dpkg -S" on the filenames, I see that /etc/cron.daily/mythexport comes from the mythexport package and /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database comes from the mythtv-database package. I suspect the people who have /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database instead have manually moved the file from weekly to daily to make it occur more often.
> 
> If you don't have the cron entries but do have the mythexport and mythtv-database packages installed, I'm guessing the files were manually deleted. If so, there is probably a proper way to reinstall or reconfigure the packages to bring the cron files back, but I don't know how to do that.
> 
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I've just got /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database ... so I'll probably copy it over to daily also.   Thank you.
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