Ah yes that did it!<br><br>I used 'set HOME=/home/mythtv; /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase...' in my crontab line and that fixed it!<br><br>Cheers<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">
ffrr</b> <<a href="mailto:ffrr@tpg.com.au">ffrr@tpg.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">duckeo wrote:
<br><br>> Okay this one is driving me nuts.<br>><br>> I've got my local myth user configured to use mythfilldatabase with<br>> tv_grab_au. If I run this manually from the command line as mythtv, it<br>> works fine.
<br>><br>> I configure up my crontab to run the same job:<br>><br>> mythtv@mythtv:~$ crontab -l<br>> 00 23 * * * /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase<br>><br>> It was set to run once a day early in the morning (but it's 11:00p for
<br>> testing purposes).<br>><br>> When I check my mythweb status, it says mythfilldatabase last failed<br>> and I verify this with the guide still not having the correct data.<br>><br>> I set up the crontab to pipe the output to a file:
<br>><br>> mythtv@mythtv:~$ crontab -l<br>> 00 23 * * * /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase ><br>> /var/log/mythfilldatabase.log<br>><br>> and in that log, the next day:<br>> mythtv@mythtv :~$ cat /var/log/mythfilldatabase.log
<br>> 2005-11-12 23:00:02.969 New DB connection, total: 1<br>> 2005-11-12 23:00:03.048 New DB connection, total: 2<br>> ----------------- Start of XMLTV output -----------------<br>> 2005-11-12 23:00: 03.170 New DB connection, total: 3
<br>> ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------<br>> Updating icons for sourceid: 1<br>> 2005-11-12 23:00:03.207 New DB connection, total: 4<br>><br>> That's all I see, no reason for a failure. My Crontab log shows it is
<br>> running as the correct user:<br>><br>> root@mythtv:/home/mythtv# cat /var/log/cron.1<br>> /usr/sbin/crond 2.3.3 dillon, started, log level 8<br>> USER mythtv pid 18998 cmd /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase
<br>><br>> Is there some environment variable I need to set within the cron job<br>> itself?<br>><br>> Thanks<br>><br>>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>
<br><br>I was getting an error when mythbackend ran mythfilldatabase. In the log<br>I found...<br><br>config file //.mythtv/au.xmltv does not exist, run me with --configure<br><br>The problem was that the 'HOME' environment variable is not defined.
<br>To fix it in /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend<br><br>Add the following line<br>HOME=/home/mythtv<br><br>directly after<br>DESC="MythTV server"<br><br><br><br>Now, you might need to do something similar? Just a guess...
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