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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/18/2015 7:49 AM, Michael T. Dean
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<blockquote cite="mid:564C81E1.1040006@thirdcontact.com" type="cite">So,
I would say that the 2am spike is due to people/distros
misconfiguring systems and disabling "Automatically update program
listings" and scheduling a cron job to run at 2am. I don't know
if some (or most? or all?) distros tend to set up their crontabs
so that /etc/cron.daily/ jobs are run at 2am, but if so, perhaps
some distro(s) is throwing a script to run mythfilldatabase (or to
run it if the script thinks it hasn't been run recently--meaning
that the distro doesn't trust mythbackend to do the job right) in
/etc/cron.daily/. Regardless, since there's no magic 2am time in
any of MythTV, whatever causes the spike is outside of MythTV--at
least outside of
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/tree/master/mythtv">https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/tree/master/mythtv</a> (meaning some
distros may be putting in some 2am hard-coded time in a patch, but
I don't know of any, and don't see any in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/MythTV/packaging">https://github.com/MythTV/packaging</a> ).
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Has it always been that way? I seem to remember when the 2am thing
first came up, it was fixed, but many folks had old versions.<br>
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The user agent strings at 2am UTC are:<br>
<blockquote>| MythTV v0.27.20140323-1 MythDownloadManager |<br>
| MythTV v0.27.20150622-1 MythDownloadManager |<br>
| MythTV v0.27.20151025-1 MythDownloadManager |<br>
| MythTV v0.27.20131107-1 MythDownloadManager |<br>
| MythTV v0.27.20140520-1 MythDownloadManager |<br>
| MythTV v0.27.20140719-1 MythDownloadManager |<br>
| MythTV v0.27.20141016-1 MythDownloadManager |<br>
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Some are fairly recent (I assume compile) dates. <br>
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I'll look into contacting a few users to see what I can figure out.<br>
<br>
Robert<br>
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