[mythtv-users] Interesting mythfilldatabase failure mode

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri May 18 04:47:10 UTC 2007


On 05/18/2007 12:19 AM, David Kramer wrote:
> Mythfilldatabase would run manually just fine, but wasn't running
> automatically, even though the configuration screen looked right.
>
> The problem turned out to be this: The config field "mythfilldatabase
> Log Path" was set to "/data/mythtv/logs"  Apparently it was expecting a
> filename.  "Path" is rather ambiguous.  Sometimes it means the directory
> something is/should be in.  Sometimes it's the directory and filename.
>   
...
> Could the text be changed to something else that denotes path plus filename?

How's this:

mythfilldatabase Log Path
Path (including filename) to use for logging output from the 
mythfilldatabase program.  Leave blank to disable logging.

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3474

Mike


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