hi all,

I am trying to run "get_iplayer --pvr" from cron, but it doesn't seem to be downloading any shows. running the same command manually does though.

the cron job seems to at least initiate as I get a lock file error message, when i first try the manual option.


the output of running crontab -l looks like:


I am running get_player v2.94 on OS X Yosemite 10.10.4


Does anyone have any pointers on where I can start looking for what is causing this? I can't even find a log file.

cheers,

Dave

There is no log file unless you make one.  Redirect stdout/stderr to file in crontab get_iplayer command.  Remember that cron environment is minimal by default, so the most likely problem is that you don't have PATH set up correctly.  You probably need to redefine it in crontab so that it includes /usr/local/bin.  Google is your friend here.