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

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/28/2011 08:11, John Reid wrote:
>
>
> On 28/01/11 12:50, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> 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.
> Is there no event for show deletion? Wouldn't that obviate the need 
> for running on the whole set of recordings?

Yes there is, but the event only provides the channel ID and start 
time.  There is not enough information to reconstruct the filename to 
know which link to delete.