[mythtv-users] Guide Data wiped out if MythTV is left on Main Menu

[David Miller]

Matt Mossholder wrote on 7/11/07 10:50 PM:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:31 -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
>> David Miller wrote:
>>> The Ubuntu package drops a short script that runs mythfilldatabase into
>>> /etc/cron.daily.
>> Which is REALLY REALLY REALLY bad form...  Zap2it asked over and over
>> that we pull at the time requested by them, to ease the load on their
>> servers.  MythTV has supported this for ages.
>>
>> -Chris
> 
> At least for the feisty packages, here is NOTHING added to cron.daily.
> There is a script in the mythtv-database package that adds a weekly
> database cleanup/backup, but nothing running mythfilldatabase in any of
> the packages that I could find.

My system is running edgy.  So it sounds like Ubuntu fixed this and it
just never got backported.  (It's not a "security" fix, so they wouldn't).

-- 
Dave