If you are running a RedHat/Fedora based system (and possibly others) the PATH is reset in /etc/init.d/functions. Look for a line near the top that looks like this: PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
Add the following to /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
Of course there are several other solutions also.
This solved my problem. In Gentoo's /etc/init.d/functions.sh, around line 749 (inside the 'if [ -z "${EBUILD}" ]' block, there's a PATH set there (the only PATH set in the whole file)). If I tack on a /usr/local/bin, like this:
PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"My mythcommflag now is correctly spawned from mythbackend (from how I understand it works).
Thanks for all of your help, and I apologize if I did miss an obvious solution to this elsewhere in the mailling list.
Thanks,
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