Kodi Community Forum - mc2xml cron job not working

I have the tvheadend back end running. I can run mc2xml from the directory it resides in (/home/hts/mc2xml/) but if i try and run it from the full path in order to have a script in the cron.daily directory to run it, it errors out with a:

Code:

Loading ..... : mc2xml (c) <[email protected]> (v1.2)

Reminder .... : Unauthorized redistribution prohibited.

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Missing -g

any ideas? all the permissions look fine and open to everyone.

Hello!

I have the same issue! Any help on that would be fine.
I was not able to find a solution so far.
/krijeck

no ideas?

any help or idea would be appreciated ....
/krijeck

this might be the solution:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1636810

(2014-02-26, 02:24)DaveNinja Wrote: [ -> ]this might be the solution:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1636810

thanks for the hint. Will give this a try ... how can I find out if a cron job works?

(2014-03-02, 18:18)krijeck Wrote: [ -> ]
(2014-02-26, 02:24)DaveNinja Wrote: [ -> ]this might be the solution:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1636810

thanks for the hint. Will give this a try ... how can I find out if a cron job works?

Code:
logger

I added a line in my mc2xml script that writes the date to a file in my home directory when the script it run, something like:
date > /home/username/last_time_mc2xml_ran.txt

My tvheadend program guide has been staying up to date so the fix was good