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grant.b.edwards at gmail

Nov 9, 2009, 5:11 PM

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mythfilldatabase not running

I've got a MythTv backend set up that's working great except
for one thing: mythfilldatabase isn't getting run every day.

If I run it manually, it works fine. The schedule database gets
filled, and the system status page on MythWeb shows that it was
run and that it's scheduled to run again the next day.

But, unless I run it manually, it never runs.

I've grepped through the backend log for "fill" and found
nothing.

I thought that the backend would run mythfilldatabase (I swear
that's how it always worked on my KnoppMyth boxes), but it
doesn't seem to be the case.

Are you supposed to set up a cron job to run mythfilldatabase?

--
Grant

markknecht at gmail

Nov 9, 2009, 6:15 PM

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Re: mythfilldatabase not running [In reply to]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards [at] gmail> wrote:
> I've got a MythTv backend set up that's working great except
> for one thing: mythfilldatabase isn't getting run every day.
>
> If I run it manually, it works fine. The schedule database gets
> filled, and the system status page on MythWeb shows that it was
> run and that it's scheduled to run again the next day.
>
> But, unless I run it manually, it never runs.
>
> I've grepped through the backend log for "fill" and found
> nothing.
>
> I thought that the backend would run mythfilldatabase (I swear
> that's how it always worked on my KnoppMyth boxes), but it
> doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> Are you supposed to set up a cron job to run mythfilldatabase?
>
> --
> Grant

Unless something has changed you shouldn't *have* to set up a cron job
although I know on the myth lists people have discussed doing this.

mythfilldatabase has been hit and miss, mostly hit but at odd times
miss, for me also.

- Mark

grant.b.edwards at gmail

Nov 10, 2009, 1:22 PM

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Re: mythfilldatabase not running [In reply to]

On 2009-11-10, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards [at] gmail> wrote:

> I've got a MythTv backend set up that's working great except
> for one thing: mythfilldatabase isn't getting run every day.

There's a field in the settings table I neglected to set. It's
called "MythFillEnabled", and it defaulted to 0. I changed it
to 1, set the "MythFillDatabaseLog" field to "/var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log",
and mythfilldatabase was run by the backend the next time it
was supposed to. :)

Presumably those fields are present somewhere in the
"mythtv-setup" program, but I avoid that program as much as
possible. I can't ever find anything in it, and even if I did
know where to go, the UI does an excellent job of preventing me
from getting there.

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