daily cron job excessively verbose

[Brian May]

Since upgrading to Karmic I get these emails on a daily basis:

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:04:41 +1100
From: Anacron <root>
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on oncilla
To: root

/etc/cron.daily/mythvideo:

! Warning: Skipping "big buck bunny 1080p stereo" as there is no IMDB number for this movie.
Use interactive option (-i) or (-I) to select the IMDB number.
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This is just spam, I really don't need to be reminded on a daily basis that there is no IMDB number for this movie, and there is nothing I can do about it either.

mythvideo version 0.22.0+fixes22594-0ubuntu1

Brian May

[doug (r-d-vaughan)]

This is real easy to fix. Through MythVideo edit this specific video's metadata and set the reference number to '999999999' (eight nines). Jamu will ignore any video that has its reference number set as above.

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

These messages are being mailed because they go to stderr. We should just redirect that to jamu.log

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Ok, i've made this change in the packaging. This will be reflected in the next set of autobuilds, or in the next development release (Lucid Lynx) when the mythplugins task is closed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mythplugins - 0.22.0+fixes23527-0ubuntu1

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mythplugins (0.22.0+fixes23527-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New snapshot (r23527)
  * debian/control:
    - Recommends for python-imaging (LP: #500313)
  * debian/mythweb.postinst:
    - Check that a 'default' site is available before attempting to
      make a new one. (LP: #462405)
    - Check that the new site to enable exists before enabling.
  * debian/mythvideo.cron.*:
    - Redirect all output on stderr into the log file too (LP: #487880)
    - Check that a frontend is installed to determine if this job should
      be ran. (LP: #507436)
  * debian/mythvideo.logrotate:
    - Supply a logrotate script for jamu.

  [ Nicholas J Kreucher ]
  * debian/mythvideo.cron.*:
    - Use getent instead of grep /etc/passwd (LP: #511858)
 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:24:14 -0600