[mythtv-users] MythTV/cron interaction?

[Nick Morrott]

On 28/06/2008, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com> wrote:

>  But this wasn't working - just nothing was happening, nothing from cron in any logfile. Then I found that 'ps -ae | grep cron' returned nothing. Strange. There were 'S83cron' symlinks in all the relevant rc*.d directories. Starting cron from the command line worked fine. So I removed cron (update-rc.d -f cron remove) and re-added it (update-rc.d cron defaults 83). Reboot. Still no cron. So I tried removing it again and trying 'update-rc.d cron defaults 11'. Reboot. Now I have cron, and my shutdown crontab works. But now myth won't record any programs. Live TV is OK but all scheduled recordings fail (Canceled recording (Recorder Failed) in the myth logs). Put cron back to 83 and myth works but cron doesn't.
>
>  Can anybody explain what's going on? And also if there's a better way to get my box to shut itself down I'd be grateful.

First, see the MythWelcome
(http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Mythwelcome) and Startup/Shutdown
(http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Shutdown_Wakeup) details on the
wiki, as these provide a more MythTV-centric way to shutdown your box.

Are there any differences in your dmesg/syslog output at startup when
the shutdown crontab is disable/enabled? If you run mythbackend with
extra verbosity (see mythbackend -v help), is the 'Recorder Failed'
message any more explanatory?

-- 
Nick Morrott

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