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Hi, the first field in a crontab entry is the minute value. By
specifying an "*" for the minute, you're telling cron to run the
program every minute when the hour of day is "4"... <br>
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I recommend that you use a non-wildcard value for the minute and pick a
random minute value of something like "22", since I'm sure Tribune
Media services gets bombarded with automated requests at nice round
values like 4:00am, 4:30am, etc. Based on that advice, your crontab
entry should look like:<br>
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<pre wrap="">## run mythfilldatabase every night at 4:22 am
22 4 * * * mythfilldatabase > /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 2>&1
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Hope that helps,<br>
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Jeff<br>
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anders smith wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The reason for my crontab question is that when I run mythfilldatabase
in my mythtv crontab:
## run mythfilldatabase every night at 4 am
* 4 * * * mythfilldatabase > /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 2>&1
I get all sorts of problems with mysql restarting because it runds out
of memory and multiple grabber running inn parallel eating up all the
memory and making the hd work like creazy...
When I run mythfilldatabase manually later in the morning (around 8am)
as user mythtv I don't get any of these problems... This is why I'l
worrying thatit might have something to do with my crontab and not
mythfilldatabase or the grabber (tv_grab_dk)....
Any suggestions or insights?
thanks
anders
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:14:36 -0500, Andrew Plumb <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:aplumb@gmail.com"><aplumb@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">See also the "REDIRECTION" subsection in the bash man pages for even
more gory details.
Andrew.
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