[mythtv-users] mirobridge cron and ubuntu 9.10

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
> I can run mirobridge just fine from terminal.
>
> It does not work from cron.
>
> This is the cron line:
>
> 45 * * * * env `dbus-launch` sh -c 'trap "kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID" EXIT;
> /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/imports/mirobridge/mirobridge.py -V >>
> "/tmp/mirobridge.log" 2>&1
>
> It does not log anything to the log file. If I eliminate the env...EXIT
> part, it will put an error in log file:
>
> 2010-03-18 20:10:04,747 - mirobridge - CRITICAL - Importing Miro functions
> has an issue. Miro must be installed and functional, error(Failed to contact
> configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable
> TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system
> crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:
> Not running within active session))

cron does not necessarily have your usual environment. Try giving full
paths to all the commands.