[mythtv-users] Guide Data wiped out if MythTV is left on Main Menu

Matt Mossholder matt+mythTV-Users at mossholder.com
Thu Jul 12 02:50:51 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:31 -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> > The Ubuntu package drops a short script that runs mythfilldatabase into
> > /etc/cron.daily.
> 
> Which is REALLY REALLY REALLY bad form...  Zap2it asked over and over
> that we pull at the time requested by them, to ease the load on their
> servers.  MythTV has supported this for ages.
> 
> -Chris

At least for the feisty packages, here is NOTHING added to cron.daily.
There is a script in the mythtv-database package that adds a weekly
database cleanup/backup, but nothing running mythfilldatabase in any of
the packages that I could find.

		--Matt



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