[mythtv-users] Why is my cron job not backing up my database?

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Tue May 15 00:24:11 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 05/10/2012 03:16 AM, Anthony Messina wrote:
>>
>> I apologize for missing your first post so I'm not sure if you're
>> running 0.25
>
>
> That reminds me...  There is actually a bug in the Perl bindings in
> unstable/development (but not 0.25) that prevents it from working properly
> with a "new-format" config.xml file.  Basically, the Perl bindings version
> of http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10692
>
> I'll be fixing the Perl bindings very soon (planned to get to it Monday, but
> haven't gotten a chance to do any of my plans for this week, yet :).
>
> Mike
>

I tried some of the tricks and none seems to work.  I think none of
the entries in my crontab are actually running and haven't been since
Nov 27, about the time I upgraded from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16.  So I
think something in that switch has killed my crontab.  Any ideas where
to start looking here?  Does cron itself log?


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