<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 11, 2022, 4:43 PM Bill Meek <<a href="mailto:keemllib@gmail.com">keemllib@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 5/11/22 16:39, DryHeat122 wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:48 AM Bill Meek <<a href="mailto:keemllib@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">keemllib@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:keemllib@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">keemllib@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> On 5/11/22 12:59, DryHeat122 wrote:<br>
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> I understand redoing a working setup may appear risky. I'd just COPY the files under your<br>
> user to the same places in ~mythtv/.mythtv. Make all related files user:group mythtv<br>
> and the <source>.xmltv file(s) points to mythtv's copy of the SQLite DB. Test that<br>
> the 'normal' MFDB run by the backend works as does the mfdbrun above (or whatever<br>
> you'd like to name it.) I recall that the .xmltv directory must also be mythtv:mythtv<br>
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> I thought about that, but I worry that the frontend may reference these files and lose track of them if I change the directory.<br>
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The files we're discussing are mainly used at mythfilldatabase run time.<br>
I'm ignoring the setup part of the puzzle.<br>
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The files could vanish and the frontend wouldn't know about it until<br>
your listings ran out of data ;).<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So let me ask this: What is it that normally runs mythfilldatabase? Does the backend do it, or is it a cron job, or...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My thinking is that if I can disable that I can just substitute my own cron job to run mythfilldatabase under my user, and Bob's your uncle. </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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