[mythtv-users] How to pass parameters to mythfilldatabase

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Feb 1 03:46:30 UTC 2008


On 01/31/2008 06:43 PM, kanetse at gmail.com wrote:
>> In mythfrontend configuration, under Setup/General, there's a page full of
>> mythfilldatabase options. 

Where you'll see a setting with the exact name I specified whose help 
text is the exact text I specified.

> Yup, so I saw this page on mythfrontend, but here is what is not clear
> to me - when I visit that page on mythfrontend, the checkbox
> "Automatically run mythfilldatabase" was actually unchecked; despite
> the fact that I've had mythfilldatabase running automatically for
> (what seems like) years.
>   

Sounds like someone (you, your distro's packager, ...) set up your 
system to run mythfilldatabase through a cron job.

> Does that mean that mythfrontend runs mythfilldatabase?

Never.

Mike


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