On 01/26/2006 11:01 AM, Mike Richardson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:24:04PM -0000, Dawson, Guy wrote: > >> Using 0.18. I've set up Myth to run Mythfilldatabase automatically, which >> it does. Problem is that it fails with an XML error (reported in system >> status). >> >> If I run it manually, all is well (it works as user and root). >> > Is the Whatever.xmltv file in ~/.mythtv for the user that MFDB is being run > as from the crontab? > > i.e if the crontab is is running mythfilldatabase as 'mythtv' then > there should be a file like: > > /home/mythtv/.mythtv/RT.xmltv > > If you did the mythtv-setup as root then the RT.xmltv will probably be in > /root/.mythtv > > Alternatively check that mythfilldatabase is in the PATH as understood by > cron. Might need setting in the crontab, depending on how cron is running > mythfilldatabase. > Also, if running mythbackend from an init script, it's possible your environment is not properly set. May want to add the line:
export HOME=/home/mythtv before the line that start mythbackend. Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
