[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase failure diagnosis

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 16:19:03 UTC 2016


On 01/17/2016 09:56 AM, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> Also, is there a switch I need apart from --logfile in order for the
> logging to work?  The output says it's using a logfile in the right place,
> but none is created.

No switch, but you must have write permissions in the directory. Try
--logpath /tmp.

When run by the backend, the popular reason for no logging is that
the program name in mythtv-setup is a full path such as:
/usr/bin/mythfilldatabase rather than just mythfilldatabase. A full
path will shut off logging (by design.)

-- 
Bill


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