mythtv-status could run as the mythtv daemon user, but does the mythtv
daemon user have the config.xml file? (I'm not running 0.21 yet, so
can't check).
As Björn points out you can't just have the cron job run the init script
as the mythtv user due to needing to write to /etc/motd, but the init
s
That won't work if you want to update /etc/motd with the mythtv-status
output and as all the cron job does is calling /etc/init.d/mythtv-status
you probably have to just call mythtv-status as 'mythtv' and let the
rest be run as root. On the other hand I think the init.d script is a
bit strange. Why
I think the actual solution should be running as the mythtv daemon user.
This user is available on all systems w/ some variety of MythTV
installed (packaged of course). So make mythtv-status depend on mythtv-
common, and make it's cron job launch as 'mythtv'.
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mythtv-status should be run as th
But what happens if you don't have a frontend on the box? What happens
if the .mythtv/config.xml still doesn't exist?
My preference is use a modified MythTV.pm which doesn't require
accessing the database. I've made the modification, I just need to
submit the patch to the MythTV trac instance.
