[mythtv-users] Samba share of mythfs.py filesystem not working

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/28/2011 05:20, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 27/01/11 18:45, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 01/27/2011 08:58 AM, John Reid wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 27/01/11 10:49, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>>> On 26/01/11 22:36, John Reid wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I did try mythlink but that didn't work off the bat and in any 
>>>>> case you
>>>>> need to set up a cron job to keep everything in sync. I want to know
>>>>> why
>>>>> mythfs.py isn't working...
>>>>>
>>>> Why not use the new event system and trigger off a mythlink run
>>>> whenever any recording finishes? No cron job needed, no unnecessary
>>>> mythlink runs triggered.
>>>>
>>> Thanks for all the help everyone, I think I'll give that a try.
>>
>> You still need a cron job.
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl#Using_with_MythTV_System_Events
>>
> I'm sorry, I don't quite follow. Surely using mythlink.pl either 
> triggered by a system event or even as a user job does exactly what he 
> wants. Why do you still need a cron job?

Because running it that way only produces new links.  It must be run 
normally occasionally to flush the old ones.