[mythtv-users] PM-Suspend/Cron job/motherboard Woes

[Joey Morris]

Captain Hook <captainhookzero at gmail.com> wrote on Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:58:34AM -0400:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Captain Hook <captainhookzero at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Russell Gower <mythtv at thegowers.me.uk>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 30 Aug 2013, at 20:37, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 08/30/2013 02:29 PM, Joey Morris wrote:
> >> >> Captain Hook <captainhookzero at gmail.com> wrote on Fri, Aug 30, 2013
> >> at 03:12:39PM -0400:
> >> >>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Joey Morris <rjmorris.list at zoho.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> Captain Hook <captainhookzero at gmail.com> wrote on Fri, Aug 30, 2013
> >> at
> >> >>>> 12:43:48PM -0400:
> >> >>>>> Here are the contents of my crontab file:
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> 30 2 * * * root /usr/sbin/pm-suspend 2>&1
> >> ./home/user/Templog/Cron.log <-------------------
> >>
> >> If that really is a crontab file (created with the crontab -e command)
> >> and not a file in one of the /etc/cron.* directories then the entry should
> >> be
> >> 30 2 * * * /usr/sbin/pm-suspend 2>&1 >/home/user/Templog/Cron.log
> >>
> >> You don't specify the user in a crontab file as there is one file per
> >> user.
> >>
> >
> > I am creating it with "sudo crontab -e", which from my understanding
> > creates it as the root user's file.
> >
> > Regarding specifying a user, I have tried both with "root" and without
> > because I am grasping at straws at this point.  I saw some crontab files
> > online where they were specifying "root" and I believe that is the way my
> > old frontend was working as well.
> >
> > I see that you have not included a space after the redirection operator
> > and above the file did include a space.  With a space included it doesn't
> > work, I will try without.
> >
> 
> Running the command without a space seems to have done the trick, however,
> it is still not writing to the log.  I guess we have succeeded in doing
> what I wanted to do, not sure why it isn't writing to the log, but I guess
> that's irrelevant at this point?  Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

Whether or not the space is present really shouldn't matter, so I
suspect something else is going on. But if it's working for you now,
maybe it isn't worth investigating further.

A couple other things: (1) Did you look at the pm logs? See
/var/log/pm-suspend.log and any older ones that have been rotated. (2)
Does the directory /home/user/Templog actually exist?


> Here are the contents of my crontab file (created with "sudo crontab -e"):
> 
> 0 0 * * * mythmetadatalookup --refresh-all-rules
> 15 0 * * * mythmetadatalookup --refresh-all
> 30 2 * * * mythmetadatalookup --refresh-all-artwork
> 54 11 * * * ./usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl
> 
> For what it's worth, I have tried both "./usr/share/mythtv/
> mythconverg_backup.pl" and "/usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl".
>  Also, if I run this command manually, "sudo ./usr/share/mythtv/
> mythconverg_backup.pl" (with the dot), it works perfectly, including
> rotating out the oldest backup after reaching 5.

You should read up on relative versus absolute paths. The
presence/absence of the dot at the beginning shouldn't be tripping you
up this much.