[mythtv-users] Removing old user jobs

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 17/03/15 12:32, Matt Emmott wrote:
>
>> Many moons ago I set up a user job to run MythicalLibrarian after each
>> recording. Now that Myth is good with metadata and I can use mythlink.pl,
>> I
>> no longer need ML. So after upgrading to 0.27 I went into the backend
>> setup
>> and cleared out the user job arguments and renamed it back to "User Job
>> #2". But I just looked in my backend status for the first time in a while
>> and see that I have hundreds of "User Job #2"s queued up.
>>
>> It looks like I have two problems here. First, Myth keeps running the old
>> user job even though I wiped the arguments and second, I have a ton of old
>> jobs stuck in the queue. How can I fix this? I couldn't find anything
>> useful in the Wiki. It looks like I may need to use phpmyadmin or
>> something
>> similar to manually remove the stuck jobs from the queue (is there a
>> better
>> way?) but this won't stop new jobs from rolling in.
>>
>>  The new jobs are there because you ticked um, the second user job, in
> each recording schedule. You'll have to work through all your schedules and
> untick them.
>
> For the stuck jobs already there, I'll let someone else assist you since I
> have no experience of that problem.
>
> You could try changing the command for User Job 2 to something like
/bin/true  That should clear the queue quickly. Then you can fix your
recording schedules.

Karl
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