Hi, I did what Michel suggested and it works fine as a temporary workaround. I have commented out the crontab entry for now, but will turn it on again when the site is up.
Stephen; What you suggests seems like a good solution; I'll try to free some time myself to make a script that checks the file before it overwrites the existing one...:-) Thanks for your help /Tommy Stephen Rowles skrev: > I've had this problem before, it is rather frustrating isn't it! > > The real solution is to have a more intelligent xml downloader, that > downloads the new XML data to a temporary file, checks this download to > be valid / useable, then replaces freevo's TV.xml with the new data. > > I had intended to write something that did exactly that, but as with > most things I just never find the time! > > Deleting the TV.xml will work though. > > Michel Hoogervorst wrote: > >> You could delete the corrupt xml file, then Freevo would just say >> "channel has no data loaded", but it would still let you watch (and >> manually record) tv. >> >> 2007/10/6, Tommy Killander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Yesterday the swedish XMLTV grabber stopped (due to a hacker attack of >>> the swedb site - http://tv.swedb.se). >>> >>> This is obviously not a Freevo problem, but is has a bad secondary >>> effect on my system; when I try to enter the TV Guide I get a error message >>> >>> TV Guide is corrupt! >>> [OK] >>> >>> >>> Pressing Enter will only get me back to the Watch TV meny - i.e. I can't >>> watch TV anymore. >>> >>> >>> Is there any easy way of disabling the XMLTV until the site is fixed ? >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> /Tommy >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >>> Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. >>> Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. >>> Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freevo-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users >>> >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >> Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. >> Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. >> Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Freevo-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
