[mythtv-users] Why is my cron job not backing up my database?

[Gabe Rubin]

On May 9, 2012, at 8:48 PM, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> On 05/09/2012 11:43 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>> On 05/09/2012 10:33 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
>> ...
>>> [mythtv at localhost backup]$ more /home/mythtv/.mythtv/backuprc
>>> DBBackupDirectory=/home/mythtv/.mythtv/backup
>>> 
>>> And the command works from the command line.  It just seems that none
>>> of my cronjobs are functioning.
>> 
>> But isn't your cron job running as root? If so, there
>> should be a similar entry in ~root/.mythtv.
>> 
>> At least that would explain why cron fails and command line works.
>> 
> 

This is my mythtv cron job.  What I pasted in my first email was from running crontab -e as the mythtv user. 

> And/or you need to specify a value for HOME to point to /home/mythtv
> 
> (without a valid HOME, nearly all things MythTV will fail--including optimize_mythdb.pl and mythconverg_backup.pl)
> 

I am not sure I understand what this means. And does it change anything that the cron job is running as mythtv?