[mythtv-users] automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days (fixed)

[Drew Gilbert]

On Thursday 31 July 2008 01:09:26 Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 22:16:51 Nick Rout wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:40:20 Drew Gilbert wrote:
> >> >> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:07:04 Nick Rout wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Drew Gilbert
> >> >> > <gilbert.drew at gmail.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > > <code>
> >> >> > > 2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use
> >> >> > > grabber 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt
> >> >> > > --capabilities 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using
> >> >> > > tv_grab_uk_rt is not supported
> >> >> > > . You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > What happens when you run
> >> >> >
> >> >> > tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> >> >> >
> >> >> > from the command line?
> >> >>
> >> >> bash-3.2$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> >> >> baseline
> >> >> manualconfig
> >> >> cache
> >> >> preferredmethod
> >> >> bash-3.2$
> >> >>
> >> >> Am I missing any?
> >> >
> >> > Looks like this is fixed for me, I symlinked tv_grab_uk_rt to
> >> > /usr/bin/ and it now runs automatically with no problem.
> >>
> >> out of curiosity, where is tv_grab_uk_rt in your filesystem?
> >
> > It is located in /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor/ along with several other
> > grabbers that I personally do not use.  The directory is in all of my
> > regular users' path (including root), but that appears to be insufficient
> > for this to work.
>
> But I wonder if it is in the path when mythbackend runs
> mythfilldatabase. I suspect not.

It would seem not.  Do you know offhand where I need to look to change this?  
This might be related but it is probably offtopic, I run mythbackend from 
inittab but after upgrading from 0.20 to 0.21 (fixes) I had to create a 
wrapper script to provide the $HOME path otherwise it would not start.