<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/06/2009 11:45 AM, Yeechang Lee wrote:<div class="im"><br>
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Kevin Kuphal says:<br>
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Just an FYI, this is why I have a 6PM cron job that runs with<br>
--refresh-today. It will catch alot of schedule changes like<br>
sports, presidential addresses, and such. A very good suggestion<br>
for people to keep their schedules up to date.<br>
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I used to do this but removed it because I didn't know what would<br>
happen if two mythfilldtabase jobs ran at the same time, since my box<br>
runs it at whatever time SchedulesDirect suggests it should.<br>
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I guess I could avoid the issue by putting a check into the cron job<br>
that aborts it nif another mythfilldatabase is running. I'd have to do<br>
the same thing in the shell script that mythbackend calls to run<br>
mythfilldatabase (I run <a href="http://optimize_database.pl" target="_blank">optimize_database.pl</a> before and after) for the<br>
edge case of the 6pm one starting right after the daily one starts at<br>
5:57pm, too, of course.<br>
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If you're running mythfilldatabase in a cron job every day at 6:00pm, why are you also running mythfilldatabase automatically at the time suggested by the grabber? Running every day at 6:00pm destroys the benefit of using the suggested time and running it 2x per day just seems to be even worse.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Personally, I'm only running it with --refresh-today at 6pm so I still use the suggested time to update the full schedule.<br><br>Kevin<br></div></div><br>