the mythtv status cron script sends an annoying email every hour.

[Darius]

Binary package hint: mythtv-backend

The cron script /etc/cron.d/mythtv-status causes an email to be generated because it can't find the config in root's home directory (it says something like "can't find config, using UPnP to find backend"). This causes an email to be sent every hour which is annoying.

The solution would be to run mythtv-status as the myth user (if possible) or to fake out the script by setting HOME (I use the later)

[Andrew Ruthven (andrew-etc)]

If mythtv-status can find the backend using UPnP then this is a bug with MythTV.pm (in the libmyth-perl package). That is where this warning message is coming from.

[Andrew Ruthven (andrew-etc)]

I say warning message, in the MythTV.pm code there is a comment above the line that emits the message that states "alert the user" - does the user actually care in this case? I think not. :)

[Andrew Ruthven (andrew-etc)]

I've submitted a patch for libmyth-perl which resolves this issue #327406.