<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yeechang Lee</b> <<a href="mailto:ylee@pobox.com">ylee@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Greg Estabrooks <<a href="mailto:greg@phaze.org">greg@phaze.org</a>> says:<br>> > So when is the best time to be running the cron job for retrieving<br>> > listings?<br>><br>> Don't use a cronjob, use the built in ability for the backend to run
<br>> mythfilldatabase itself. It will honour the suggested downlaod time<br>> from zap2it and allow them to spread their load.<br><br>And, for those of us who are still holding off on upgrading to 0.19<br>for one reason or another and are still using crontab, do what I do,
<br>based on the recommendation in Jarod Wilson's guide:<br><br>### Run mythfilldatabase every night randomly in a 4-hour block after 3:01am<br>01 3 * * * sleep $(expr $RANDOM \% 14400) && mythfilldatabase > /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 2>&1
<br><br>I'm a little surprised, based on the discussions I see here, of the<br>number of people who apparently *weren't* doing something like this<br>already; go figure.</blockquote><div><br><br>I'm a little suprised at the number of people who are 'waiting for
0.19' before letting Myth schedule their database pulldowns. It's been there since at _least_ 0.18. Sure, the 'suggested time' won't be used, but they already support a random pull-down with a specified time range.<br>
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