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!!

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".

thx for the quick reply, I'll try that!

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.


At the end of bootmisc I put the command:
(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.

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works great!! thx a lot!!!