Mailing List Archive: cron'ing mythfilldatabase

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The following works on Mandrake 9.0:

File "mythcrontab":
# The following will run the mythfilldatabase shell script at 18:00
every day. Format is
# minutes hour day_of_month month day_of_week
# In the case of mythfilldatabase, we want it to run at 1800 daily.
# man 5 crontab for more information
# Need to use a shell script because the QTDIR environment variable
isn't
# being honored by crontab?
0 18 * * * /bin/bash
$HOME/mythtv/MC/programs/mythfilldatabase/mythfilldatabasecron

% crontab mythcrontab

File programs/mythfilldatabase/mythfilldatabasecron:
#!/bin/bash
export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
/usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase

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