On March 22, 2016 5:26:36 AM GMT, steve <stevenospam@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
>Hi,<br>
><br>
>I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with MythTV 0.27.6 installed via PPA, not<br>
>mythbuntu<br>
><br>
>Am I supposed to be manually adding anything to cron for myth?<br>
><br>
>For example, am I supposed to be crontabbing the running of<br>
>mythfilldatabase every so often?<br>
><br>
>I found reference to some other cron files in some other thread, I am<br>
>guessing mythbuntu-desktop or maybe myth-control-centre created them?:<br>
><br>
>/etc/cron.d/mythbuntu-bare<br>
>/etc/cron.daily/mythexport<br>
>/etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database<br>
>/etc/cron.daily/optimize_mythdb<br>
>/etc/cron.daily/optimize_<a href="http://mythdb.pl">mythdb.pl</a><br>
>/etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database <br>
><br>
>Can someone post the contents of these so I can see what they do? <br>
><br>
>Thank you<br>
<br>
I too am running Ubuntu with mythtv packages installed on top, from the mythbuntu ppa, rather than installing from the mythbuntu ISO. I don't have mythbuntu-desktop installed, but do have mythbuntu-common, mythbuntu-bare-client and mythbuntu-control-center installed. I may have run mythbuntu-control-center in the past, but not for years.<br>
<br>
Of the cron entries you list, I have just:<br>
/etc/cron.daily/mythexport<br>
/etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database <br>
in my system. Using "dpkg -S" on the filenames, I see that /etc/cron.daily/mythexport comes from the mythexport package and /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database comes from the mythtv-database package. I suspect the people who have /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-database instead have manually moved the file from weekly to daily to make it occur more often.<br>
<br>
If you don't have the cron entries but do have the mythexport and mythtv-database packages installed, I'm guessing the files were manually deleted. If so, there is probably a proper way to reinstall or reconfigure the packages to bring the cron files back, but I don't know how to do that.<br>
<br>
John