I kept getting this red warning in Xymon that "hostname" myth_mtc did not run.
TL;DR version: the "Watch Recordings" menu doesn't count as a menu to myth_mtc
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Thu Sep 20 16:11:23 EDT 2018
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Log file: /var/log/2018-09-20/gimli_myth_mtc.log
12 days of guide data
No remote backup jobs queued
in looking at the log
Code:
2018-09-20 16:07
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Checking system idle...
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Checking if the schema is locked...
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Checking if programs are in use...
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Programs are NOT in use.
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Checking jobqueue for active jobs...
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: No jobs are active.
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Checking if mythfilldatabase is running...
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: mythfilldatabase is NOT running.
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Checking if mythtv-setup is running...
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: mythtv-setup is NOT running.
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Checking for recordings in the next 15 minutes...
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: No recordings starting in 15 minutes.
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Checking for playing mythfrontends...
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: Checking gimli's mythfrontend status...
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: gimli's mythfrontend is NOT playing.
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: gimli's mythfrontend is NOT in menus.
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: System is busy.
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc:
Sep 20 16:07:02 gimli myth_mtc: 2018-09-20 16:07 Waiting 10 minutes before trying again.
So I saw that I had left the frontend in "watch recordings" overnight so I tried running myth_mtc.py manually and i got the warning that it wasn't in menus I exited out and tried again and I got a whole bunch of permission denied warnings because I didn't run as sudo. So I'll try to do a better job of remembering to exit out to the main menu. Now I know why every once and a while the frontend main menu comes up over my chrome browser and I have to alt tab to get back. It's because the myth_mtc just ran successfully.