<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Bill Meek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keemllib@gmail.com" target="_blank">keemllib@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 08/31/2013 10:58 AM, Captain Hook wrote:<br>
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> On a related note, I am trying to run <a href="http://mythconverg_backup.pl" target="_blank">mythconverg_backup.pl</a> as a cron job<br>
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in my backend and am essentially having the same trouble. My artwork<br>
wasn't refreshing automatically despite what I had in the MythTV setup<br>
screens, so I have added that in the crontab file and that part is working<br>
fine so I know the file is being read.<br>
<br>
Here are the contents of my crontab file (created with "sudo crontab -e"):<br>
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54 11 * * * ./usr/share/mythtv/<a href="http://mythconverg_backup.pl" target="_blank">mythconverg<u></u>_backup.pl</a><br>
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Drop the . before anything that specifies a full path name.<br>
That will only work if the current working directory is /.<br>
<br>
Since you're running the command as root , then the home<br>
directory (/root on my boxes,) must have a .mythtv<br>
directory (just like /home/mythtv or most likely your<br>
own user does.) Another option would be to run the command<br>
as user mythtv, then you wouldn't need to create /root/.mythtv/<br>
config.xml and backuprc.<br>
<br>
Personally, I store the output of the DB backup command in<br>
/tmp so I can look at if needed. And so it is removed at<br>
boot time:<br>
<br>
/usr/local/share/mythtv/<a href="http://mythconverg_backup.pl" target="_blank">mythco<u></u>nverg_backup.pl</a> --verbose 2>&1 > /tmp/myth-backup.log<br>
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I can't address metadatabackup. In 0.27-beta, it just works. No<br>
cron required (it's done by mythbackend's Housekeeping.)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Bill</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You were exactly correct; removing the dot and creating the crontab file as my own user did the trick and it works exactly as intended now. Thanks!</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regarding metadata, I'm not really worried about that since I've addressed it via crontab with the root user. It is curious as to why it isn't running by mythbackend, however.</div>
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