On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> 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
