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Ah, now that is indeed a great workaround.

There are indeed predictable conditions under which the script should run and not run. I can just build that into the script and exit before doing...

Thanks, that's interesting. The reason for using systemd timers rather than cron jobs is that I've been led to believe (perhaps wrongly?) that systemd is a more modern and generally better...

I have a couple of scripts which I want to run once a day, but at different times of day each day. I have them set up as systemd timer jobs.

So I have another script which edits the [myjob].timer...

I have recently bought an air mouse to use as a remote control with my MythTV system.

Most things either work out of the box or can be made to work by playing around with key bindings. But the one...

Hah! If only! No, that was just one problem that I thought might be easy to solve. Plenty more where that came from!

I have noticed I am getting some error messages in my mythbackend log that look like this:

Dec 30 13:50:39 htpc mythbackend: mythbackend[926]: E TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3933 (TuningSignalCheck)...

OK, I figured this out. The solution was to mount the NAS drive using NFS instead of CIFS. Then everything works just fine.

Maybe you'd consider that a workaround rather than a solution if you...

Thanks! I'm not entirely sure I understand why, but adding nfsvers=4 to the options did the trick, at least it did when I also ticked the box on the Synology device to enable NFS4.1, which was off by...

I have a Synology NAS drive which I had previously mounted via fstab with CIFS. This worked just fine until I upgraded to 18.04, and now I have the problem described in this thread.

It occurred to...

I have recently upgraded my Mythtv box from Ubuntu 14.04 to 18.04

One consequence of this is that the rsync script that I use for backup no longer works. Specifically, it fails when the folder...

I have a Xyxel media streamer device on the same network as my Mythtv box, which picks up recordings from my Mythtv system via Mythtv's UPnP server functionality.

I have just upgraded my Mythtv...

Thanks, the minimal install option was exactly what I was looking for. I was thinking there might be some different download, but in fact it's just the option during installation.

I feel the time has come to upgrade my Mythbuntu 12.04 system to later software.

I understand that Mythbuntu is no longer available as a distribution in its own right, and that the recommended...

Well this is strange. When it ran last night everything got deleted properly. The only thing I changed was to add the -v flag to rm and got it to write the results of rm to a logfile to see if that...

The files being deleted are at least a week old, and nothing should be using them, so I'd be surprised if there was a process using the files.

I suspect that this may be something to do with...

I have a shell script which runs every day via crontab. One of the things it does is delete some files (using rm).

Except that it doesn't completely delete them. It deletes the original file, but...

I've run into a few problems with my backup lately, and I think it might be time for a rethink of my entire strategy.

This is my situation at the moment. This is for home use.

There are 4...

I've been playing with this some more, and making a small amount of progress. I can now get sound from my S/PDIF connection (turned out it was muted in alsamixer), but it's still only in stereo.
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Many thanks for reminding me that rsync is a better way to go. There was definitely a reason why I used ftp when I set this up: something just didn't work with rsync, but that was a while back now...

Oh, and the file system on the destination device is XFS

That's a good question why I'm not using rsync. There definitely was a good reason for it: when I first set this up, rsync didn't work for some reason. But I can't actually remember what that reason...

I'm using lftp with the mirror command to back up a whole bunch of stuff to a network drive. At the end, it reports "13366 errors detected", but gives me no clue as to what those errors might be,...

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 system with MythTV, and S/PDIF connected to a 5.1 surround sound speaker system.

From my MythTV frontend, those speakers work just fine. However, from the Ubuntu desktop,...

I thought having useful suggestions in the log file for how to fix errors looked too good to be true. Turns out this had nothing to do with the prealloc file.

I tried fiddling with some of the...

I have a MythTV 0.27 system running on Ubuntu 14.04, which will not play music.

The sound is obviously working at some level, because I can play TV and watch TV recordings and the sound works just...