[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase works by hand, fails from cron

[Mike Jasper]

Chris Thompson wrote:

> I am within striking distance of having mythtv ready for prime time. I've
> got a slight snag with mythfilldatabase, however.
> 
> Fedora system, set up to Jarod's specs.
> 
> I put the following line in crontab:
> 
> 15 4 * * * ct /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase
> 
> ct is the user with all the permissions, and with the right xmltv data in
> ~/.mythtv.

You should be running cron job as the user ct.  What I mean is, when 
logged in as ct, run crontab -e and add the entry.  That's the correct 
way to set up a cron job for a particular user.  I use the following 
entry, which I think I grabbed from Jarod's guide:

### Run mythfilldatabase every night at some random time after 2:30am
30 2 * * * sleep $(expr $RANDOM \% 7200) && mythfilldatabase > 
/var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 2>&1