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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Have you tried the crontabscript Jared Wilson have documented in his howto ? I use it without any problems and you can check the</FONT><SPAN LANG="no"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">/var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log every time its run for problems</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="no"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">... It is also recommended to run mythfilldatabase every night from cron, to keep your show information up to date. To help mitigate possible flooding of our listings provider's servers, we'll set mythfilldatabase to run at some random time after 2:30am, as suggested by David Rees on the mythtv-users mailing list. We'll simply add an entry to the mythtv user's crontab, like so:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="no"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">$ crontab -e<BR>
----Insert the following text into your mythtv user crontab----<BR>
### Run mythfilldatabase every night at some random time after 10:01am<BR>
01 10 * * * sleep $(expr $RANDOM \% 14400) && mythfilldatabase > /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 2>&1<BR>
----Cut above here (don't include this line)---- </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="no"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Myth also has built-in support for scheduling when mythfilldatabase should be run. You can find it somewhere in the frontend's setup. The randomization wasn't as good as the above the last time I looked (its been a while), but probably sufficient. I still use the cron job myself, actually running sometime mid-day, to help easy zap2it's traffic load (most people hit them in the dead of night).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Haraldov</FONT></SPAN>
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