[mythtv-users] Auto-shutdown and mythfilldatabse redux
Jason Lee
mythtv at theleehouse.net
Tue Apr 6 15:48:53 EDT 2004
Henk Poley wrote:
> I've mailed to the mailinglist about this before. Got some tips, but still
> haven't got it working. In the 'result' on the 'system status' page in
> mythfrontend says "FAILED: xmltv returned error code 512".
>
> I can run mythfilldatabase successfully manually as root. I've tried adding it
> to the cron.daily, first by symlinking, then by copying the file. When I do
> this I get some error in /var/log/messages from cron about unable to mail.
> How can I tell cron to say, mail me on my email adress via my ISPs SMTP
> server? (there doesn't seem to be an entry for the SMTP server in crons
> config files)
IIRC, cron uses /sbin/sendmail (your path may vary ;) to send emails.
That means you have to have an MTA (such as Postfix, which I would
suggest, or Sendmail, which I'd avoid). Configuring MTAs is beyond the
scope of this list, but I'm willing to bet that you don't have one
installed. FWIW, there are many packages that offer a sendmail
replacement, and just about any of them will work. IIRC, Fedora install
ssmtp as a dependency of vcron, which I always replace with Postfix.
jason
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