[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase question

[Nathan Poznick]

Thus spake Shirley, Mark R:
> I got the system configured and compiled correctly (I think)
> And I ran mythfilldatabase last night.  It took over 12 hours 
> to grab 8 days data.  Is this normal for a dialup connection?
> I figured it was about 1.5 hrs per day downloaded.  That seems
> like a lot.  Any way to shorten it?

The does seem to be a looong time, but then again I've never tried to
run it over dialup before.

> Also, when I set the cron job to update every day at 3am, it didn't
> run, but said it couldn't find .xmltv file.  Am I correct in that
> since the configuration WinTv1.xmltv file was/is run by user myth, 
> and the cron job is run by root, that this won't work?  I need to run
> a user cron job to update right?

The mythfilldatabase likely should run as the mythtv user.  The Debian
packages for instance run a shell script which runs:
su mythtv -c "mythfilldatabase --quiet"


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Nathan Poznick <poznick at conwaycorp.net>

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