[mythtv-users] Old topic rehashed - X-less backend?

[Stephen Tait]

I've seen this crop up a few times on the list, with a myriad of replies, 
none of which have really answered my questions, so I thought I'd pose them 
more verbosely here.

Crux of the matter is, I have a dedicated file server running Debian stable 
which doesn't have X, Qt or a monitor, and I don't wish it to either. It's 
far more suited to running (at least part of) mythbackend, as it doesn't do 
anything very intensive and would be ideally suited to serving the DB 
(since I already have apache, PHP and MySQL on it as a testbed), and has 
RAID1 and all the usual gubbins.

I've not looked into it yet, but I imagine it'd be fairly simple to migrate 
the current mythconverg db off the current backend and onto the debian box, 
and then point the backend at it, something I'm planning on having a crack 
at once I've got my spiffy new remote working - a matter of porting the db 
to another machine and then changing mysql.txt I presume. This would then 
result in the (better) scenario of the db lying on the more reliable box 
with all the other backend stuff happening on the front-backend box.

The question I really want to know is, is it at all possible (or planned as 
possible) to be able to run the entire backend suite on a headless box? 
There was talk of a webmin module in the past, but I don't know if this was 
planned as just an add-on to the standard backend (hence requiring X and 
Qt) or as an implementation of the backend without any of the X stuff.

Thanks for any info!