> > Great, I have to look on how to apply such a patch against vdr-1.3.37. > > A grep for epg.data should quickly unravel where VDR looks if the 10 > minutes are over. This one should work: --- vdr-1.3.37/epg.c~ 2005-11-11 14:37:43.000000000 +0100 +++ vdr-1.3.37/epg.c 2005-12-09 20:54:31.000000000 +0100 @@ -882,6 +882,12 @@ lastCleanup = now; ReportEpgBugFixStats(true); } + struct stat st; + if (!epgDataFileName || stat (epgDataFileName,&st) != 0) { + lastDump = 0; + } else { + lastDump = st.st_mtime; + } if (epgDataFileName && now - lastDump > 600) { cSafeFile f(epgDataFileName); if (f.Open()) { === end of patch === Olaf