Comment 3 for bug 237564

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 doi you need an init.d script when you usually are calling it from cron?