[mythtv-users] Problem with xmltv

gkanis at cems.umn.edu gkanis at cems.umn.edu
Fri Feb 20 10:55:10 EST 2004


Tony,

can you do me a favor?
Can you run crontab -l root and 
crontab -l [user].
The second one gives me 
0 1 * * * /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase
and this is good.

But the first one gives me the output of mythfilldatabase. What is this? Why?

Thank you,
Vasilis


On Friday 20 February 2004 12:50 am, Tony Maro wrote:
> gkanis at cems.umn.edu wrote:
> > The internet connection is fine. Why should not it be. I can serf the
> > web, I check my emails, xmltv runs from the console.
>
> Perhaps it's something with your cron event?  If you can run it from the
> console, but the scheduled task is failing, then maybe you are either
> running it with the wrong user permissions, or something else is wrong.
>
> Here's my crontab line for it:
>
> 12 4 * * *     /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase
>
> Notice the full path... also this is in the same user's crontab as the
> one the frontend runs as, but I don't know if this affects things
> somehow or not.  I would think you could run it as root as well, but
> xmltv settings are stored in ~/.mythtv/[something].xmltv so if it's not
> running as the same user as you do from the console, this might be it.
>
> -Tony



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