[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase

[R. G. Newbury]

On 11/01/2011 12:34 PM, Russell Gower wrote:
>
> On 1 Nov 2011, at 16:05, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>
>> On 11/1/2011 11:36, Russell Gower wrote:
>>> Thanks, but the problem is that it works when run from the command
>>> line, but not when run from mythbackend.
>>
>> That doesn't make any sense at all.  When mythbackend runs
>> mythfilldatabase as a child process, it gets the same environment as
>> mythbackend, meaning home directory and MYTHCONFDIR will be the same.
>> Are you sure mythfilldatabase is being run by the backend, and not some
>> cron process with a different environment?
>> _______________________________________________
>
>
> Quite sure yes, the only thing I've spotted and what I wanted to test is that the init script for mythbackend defines MYTHCONFDIR, which isn't defined if I run mythfilldatabase from the command line.
>
> So when run from the command line I get the following in the log
> 	2011-11-01 16:23:33.038 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 	2011-11-01 16:23:33.038 Using configuration directory = /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv
> 	....
> 	2011-11-01 16:23:34.381 XMLTV config file is: /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv/Freeview.xmltv
>
> but when run from mythbackend I get
> 	2011-11-01 02:32:42.162 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 	2011-11-01 02:32:42.195 Read conf dir = /var/lib/mythtv
> 	2011-11-01 02:32:42.195 Using configuration directory = /var/lib/mythtv
> 	....
> 	2011-11-01 02:32:48.495 XMLTV config file is: /var/lib/mythtv/Freeview.xmltv
> 	Using old-style config file
> 	config file /var/lib/mythtv/Freeview.xmltv does not exist, run me with --configure

What happens if you cd to /var/lib/mythtv, dp 'ln -s 
./.mythtv/Freeview.xmltv Freeview.xmltv' ?


Geoff