[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not running automatically?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/22/2022 05:29 PM, Klaas de Waal wrote:
> We can add another sentence to the help text, e.g. "Do NOT use a full 
> or partial path name, only the name of an executable." I think there 
> is just enough space for that. Of course, this does not help against 
> the confusion when reading names from the settings table and drawing 
> conclusions from them.

But it can (and, if not in the PATH of the user running mythbackend, 
should) be a full path for anything that is not the "built-in" 
mythfilldatabase executable (if some user wants to run a value-added or 
workaround script).  Perhaps better would be to change the special value 
"mythfilldatabase" to "default" or "built in", which is more easily 
understandable to be a special value saying there's no need to use any 
special program for it rather than using mythfilldatabase, which is also 
the name of a program/executable, as that special value.

Mike