[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase using incorrect xmltv parameters

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com>:

> On 04/28/2016 10:31 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anybody else experience broken xmltv grabber parameter passing  
>> after upgrading to 0.28?
>>
>> I have MythFillDatabaseArgs set to:
>>
>> -v xmltv --syslog local7 -- --days 20
>>
>> but the outcome is
>>
>> nice tv_grab_eu_epgdata --config-file '/home/jan/.mythtv/EPG.xmltv'  
>> --output /tmp/mythOA2F66  --days 20 --verbose general --loglevel info
>> --quiet --syslog local7
>>
>> which doesn't work of course, because the the grabber doesn't know  
>> about "--verbose general --loglevel info --quiet --syslog local7"  
>> which are
>> mythfilldatabase arguments, not xmltv's.
>
> You could try putting the full path e.g. /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase  
> in place of
> just mythfilldatabase because that will ignore the *logging* options  
> that were
> set when mythbackend was started (or changed with --setverbose.)  
> Doing so won't
> change the options passed in MythFillDatabaseArgs.

I didn't understand the explanation, or rather the reasoning for this  
behaviour, but changing to the full path did the trick.

Thanks, Jan.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/