Some days/channels not showing up after daily call.

[petestrash]

I'm also having the same problem with some channels not having data for today and some of tomorrow etc (Fox Sports - both, MTV are among them).

Sorry too late to help you with data missing for today.

It executed as the timestamp on the /var/log/daily_call file indicated. btw, is it normal for this to write out a zero byte file? It's been writing out a zero byte file on each run since I set it up last year and the guide generally *does* get updated..

Basically the indexer checks the date stamp of this file, and will only start indexing if the datecode is different to when the indexing was last run. This is the only purpose of this file.

I have a daily call for 3pm daily permanently in my crontab and it has worked fine without this problem for a few months. Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

While this works, you will always be a day behind. Slices are generally ready around 6pm EST each day (though sometimes later). But your 3pm call will always pickup the slices from the day before. I suggest moving to 6-6:30pm then if there have been any a last minute changes for that night you will get them in time.

I also suggest adding another cron job 10 minutes later to run force_index, to be sure everything is done in time.

Peter.