I used 'set HOME=/home/mythtv; /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase...' in my crontab line and that fixed it!
Cheers
On 11/13/05,
ffrr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
duckeo wrote:
> Okay this one is driving me nuts.
>
> I've got my local myth user configured to use mythfilldatabase with
> tv_grab_au. If I run this manually from the command line as mythtv, it
> works fine.
>
> I configure up my crontab to run the same job:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l
> 00 23 * * * /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase
>
> It was set to run once a day early in the morning (but it's 11:00p for
> testing purposes).
>
> When I check my mythweb status, it says mythfilldatabase last failed
> and I verify this with the guide still not having the correct data.
>
> I set up the crontab to pipe the output to a file:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l
> 00 23 * * * /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase >
> /var/log/mythfilldatabase.log
>
> and in that log, the next day:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~$ cat /var/log/mythfilldatabase.log
> 2005-11-12 23:00:02.969 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2005-11-12 23:00:03.048 New DB connection, total: 2
> ----------------- Start of XMLTV output -----------------
> 2005-11-12 23:00: 03.170 New DB connection, total: 3
> ------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------
> Updating icons for sourceid: 1
> 2005-11-12 23:00:03.207 New DB connection, total: 4
>
> That's all I see, no reason for a failure. My Crontab log shows it is
> running as the correct user:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mythtv# cat /var/log/cron.1
> /usr/sbin/crond 2.3.3 dillon, started, log level 8
> USER mythtv pid 18998 cmd /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase
>
> Is there some environment variable I need to set within the cron job
> itself?
>
> Thanks
>
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>
I was getting an error when mythbackend ran mythfilldatabase. In the log
I found...
config file //.mythtv/au.xmltv does not exist, run me with --configure
The problem was that the 'HOME' environment variable is not defined.
To fix it in /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend
Add the following line
HOME=/home/mythtv
directly after
DESC="MythTV server"
Now, you might need to do something similar? Just a guess...
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