On 4/24/05, Niklas Brunlid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:45:21 -0400, David Brieck Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On 4/24/05, Niklas Brunlid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm building a big nice hidden backend running on Gentoo. Installed ivtv > >> and mythtv 0.17 just fine, and after editing mysql.txt (present in five > >> directories) and running mythsetup it connected fine and appeared as a > >> slave backend to my now-master, soon-to-be-slave backend/frontend. > >> > >> But when I reboot, mythbackend uses /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt, > >> which is _always_ set to the default values, no matter if I edit it or > >> delete it. Now, the server will of course not be rebooted that often, > >> but > >> I really wouldn't like to have my master backend not start up properly > >> after a power outage... =) > >> > >> /etc/init.d/mythbackend was added to "default" runlevels after > >> compilation > >> had finished. > >> > >> In /etc/conf.d/mythbackend, I have: > >> MYTH_USER=root > >> MYTH_PID=/var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid > >> > >> Running from commandline works fine, just can't start the service > >> unless I > >> manually correct /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt first. > > > > You should put your values in /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt > > Turns out the solution was easy; set MYTH_PID in /etc/conf.d/mythbackend > to point to /etc/mythtv/mythbackend.pid . It seems something th the > startup pichs the folder from that value and uses the settings from > there... and if the folder doesn't exist it is recreated. :) > > / Niklas >
Sweet! Thanks! _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users