On 5/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Niels Dybdahl</b> <<a href="mailto:Niels@dybdahl.dk">Niels@dybdahl.dk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span class="q">On 5/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">yan seiner</b> <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">yan@seiner.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>>To clear up some space, you could select a couple of files to delete and<br>>use:<br>><br>>cp /dev/null<br>>/data/seiner/mythtv/recordings/1009_20060514230000_20060514233500.nuv<br>
><br>>to make the file 0 bytes. I recommend just selecting a couple of the<br>>show names that it tried to expire--look for "expire" (not case<br>>sensitive) in the log.<br>><br>[root@tooth mythtv]# grep -i expire
mythbackend.log.1<br>[root@tooth mythtv]#</blockquote></span></div><div><div><br>I have experienced twice that the autoexpirer stopped working without explanation.<br>Once was on my own system running 0.16 and the second was my parents system running
0.17. Since upgrade to 0.18.1 and 0.19 I have not seen that problem anymore.<br><br>I too searched the backend log for anything regarding autoexpiring but did not find anything. Are you running 0.18 or 0.18.1 ?</div></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br><br>BTW 0.19 has a nice list of which recordings it will autoexpire first and it seems to me that the backend log for 0.19 has additional information about autoexpiring: How much space it is going to need etc. So maybe you should consider upgrading to
0.19.<br><br>Niels Dybdahl<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div><div>Niels Dybdahl
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