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Author:  spud101 [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:48 pm ]
Post subject:  How to run mythfilldatabase automatically at startup
Hi,

I've got my MythTV box running, thx a lot to this forum and the knoppmyth wiki. I'll post a report in one of the tier sections soon.

I still have a question though. I'm not planning to run the box 24/7 so a daily cron job or mythtv setting to run mythfilldatabase daily will not do. I would like to have mythfilldatabase to run every time I turn on the machine.

My Linux knowledge is too limited to know how to do this. Since I suppose I need some control over the order what is run when at boottime. The MySQL db should of course have been started already, but I have no idea how to tell linux to run mythfilldatabase after mysql started (and maybe some other stuff) and before the backend (?) and frontend.

Thx for any help!!
Author:  tjc [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:10 pm ]
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You can probably just put the appropriate command in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh I think that is run after the DB is started.

BTW - Since bootmisc.sh is run as root and mythfilldatabase should be run as the mythtv user you'll need to prefix the command with "su - mythtv".
Author:  spud101 [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:31 pm ]
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thx for the quick reply, I'll try that!
Author:  turpie [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:49 pm ]
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On my system putting the command at the end of bootmisc.sh didn't work, I assume because it was too early.
What I did instead was create a script in /mythtv/mybootstuff.sh with the following commands.
Code:
sleep 60
su mythtv -c "mythfilldatabase --quiet"


At the end of bootmisc I put the command:
Code:
/mythtv/mybootstuff.sh&
(the "&" sends the process into the background so that it wont hold anything else up.)

Now it works fine and gets fresh data whenever it starts up.
Author:  spud101 [ Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:26 am ]
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works great!! thx a lot!!!
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