Re: PVR/CRON Query

2019-03-13 Thread Charles Johnson
On 11/03/2019 16:41, Roger Bell_West wrote: The web interface to the PVR is a completely different thing, and (if used) should indeed be run continuously. Thanks for that. Didn't realise there were two separate things ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: PVR/CRON Query

2019-03-11 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:07:43AM +, Charles Johnson wrote: >I'm not experienced with the PVR, but afaics it's meant to be run as a server >in a client/server configuration is it not? > >If so, you wouldn't want cron to run it. That's for running jobs at regular >intervals. What you'd need to

Re: PVR/CRON Query

2019-03-11 Thread Charles Johnson
On 08/03/2019 13:19, ipla...@nutwood.net wrote: as would be seen if running the pvr manually. I'm not experienced with the PVR, but afaics it's meant to be run as a server in a client/server configuration is it not? If so, you wouldn't want cron to run it. That's for running jobs at

Re: PVR/CRON Query

2019-03-11 Thread iplayer
Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, the damn thing has stopped working. I'm assuming corruption of the boot media. I have restrained myself from stamping on it but it will be a while before I'm in a position to further explore cron and logging. -- Mike Casswell

Re: PVR/CRON Query

2019-03-08 Thread David Snyder
The information Nick has in his reply is a good overview of the output from a given command when run in cron (especially about paying attention to the different output between stdout and stderr). I just want to correct one point on what Nick said about running sub-shells in cron: > Now I think

Re: PVR/CRON Query

2019-03-08 Thread get_iplayer
Hey Mike, On Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:19:10 + ipla...@nutwood.net wrote: > Nothing wrong with this, but I had expected the full output, as would > be seen if running the pvr manually. I don't necessarily want all > that but I need to be sure that download failures are logged and > also, if