[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase false failure

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 17:01:25 UTC 2019


On 11/27/19 10:49 AM, Asher Schaffer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 8:39 AM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd suggest looking at /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log, but suspect
>> there isn't one. That's because the full path was used in mythtv-setup
>> rather than the suggested mythfilldatabase (and anything other than that
>> inhibits MFDB logging.) See if the log is different than the command
>> line runs.
> 
> Ya, there isn't one, should I change this to just be
> 'mythfilldatabase' and give it a go? I tried add --syslog but I
> haven't been able to tell what facility it is logging to in order to
> capture the output

Yes, change it. If you're already getting backend logging, then
MFDB will inherit the same options.

-- 
Bill


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