[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase cron job fails

[Paul Shepherd]

I am new to Linux+mythtv so this maybe a simple question.

I have install latest version of mythtv on a pc running FC6 with KDE.  I 
have manually run mythfilldatabase from the terminal (probably su as 
root) and that worked fine.

I have set up a cron job called mythtv_update as follows:

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#!/bin/bash

export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.3
su - mythtv -c "mythfilldatabase --no-delete" > 
/var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 2>&1

# The minimum number of days you will allow before you
# want to receive a notification message
MIN_DAYS=3
.
.... etc
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When the cron job runs I get email error msg as follows:

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/etc/cron.hourly/mythTV_update:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using 
password: NO)
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The file mythfilldatabase.log contains:

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This account is currently not available.
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A related question is where should I put the freeview.xmltv file 
containing the channel list - I put it in /var/lib/mythtv which is the 
home directory for mythtv ? Not sure this is right.

Hope my explanation makes sense - so what am I doing wrong? Thanks in 
advance.

Paul