[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase: can't run it from cron

[Paul Wheeler]

Sorry mine should have read --quiet not -quiet.

On 9/19/05, Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 03:33:46PM +0100, James Pattinson wrote:
> > Nice one, that seems to work so far - but
> > http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat is 404'ing for me now!
> > I'm sure it was working a few days ago when I last grabbed. Anyone
> > confirm it's working for them at the moment?
> >
> > Thanks
> > james
> >
> > Paul Wheeler wrote:
> >
> > >I had this same problem, using -quiet solves it.
> 
> Not working for me... My cron entry for it is
> 
> su mythtv -c "mythfilldatabase --quiet"
> 
> and I'm still getting considerable output from it. I tried changing
> the --quiet to -quiet and got an error that -quiet was not
> recognized, check --help for valid options, so I did that and the
> resulting help display shows no verbosity options.
> 
> So now I'm thinking to go the brute force route and append a
> ">/dev/null" to the entry so that it will stop mailing me the output
> every morning, but I'm a little concerned about that option... If I
> do this, will it also send information about any errors to the bit
> bucket? Or is mythfilldatabase well-enough behaved to write those to
> stderr?
> 
> 
> Output of `su mythtv -c "mythfilldatabase --quiet"`, in case it
> helps:
> 
> 2005-09-19 09:43:12.509 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2005-09-19 09:43:12.544 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2005-09-19 09:43:12.546 New DB DataDirect connection
> --09:43:12--
> http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
> => `-'
> Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160<http://206.18.98.160>
> Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160<http://206.18.98.160>
> ]:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
> Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160<http://206.18.98.160>
> ]:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/xml]
> 
> [ <=> ] 150,500 68.67K/s
> 
> 09:43:16 (68.61 KB/s) - `-' saved [150500]
> 
> Your subscription expires on 12/11/2005 02:18:39 AM
> 2005-09-19 09:43:24.422 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2005-09-19 09:43:24.424 New DB connection, total: 4
> --09:43:27--
> http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
> => `-'
> Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160<http://206.18.98.160>
> Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160<http://206.18.98.160>
> ]:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
> Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160<http://206.18.98.160>
> ]:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/xml]
> 
> [ <=> ] 123,897 60.19K/s
> 
> 09:43:31 (60.16 KB/s) - `-' saved [123897]
> 
> Your subscription expires on 12/11/2005 02:18:39 AM
> 2005-09-19 09:43:37.116 New DB connection, total: 5
> 2005-09-19 09:43:41.215 Connecting to backend server:
> 192.168.25.191:6543 <http://192.168.25.191:6543> (try 1 of 5)
> 2005-09-19 09:43:41.223 Using protocol version 15
> 
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