[mythtv-users] set backend IP address without mythsetup?

[Wendy Seltzer]

On a frontend I recently set up, changing DBHostName  in 
/usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt from "localhost" to the remote IP address 
was all the setup required.

See also the end of <http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.5>

--Wendy

At 11:31 AM 09/14/2004 -0400, Preston Crow wrote:
>I'm running Gentoo, and I want to install a second frontend.  If I
>emerge mythfrontend-0.16, it doesn't install mythsetup, which is where I
>would normally configure the IP address of the backend.  Is there some
>magic mysql command to set this?
>
>I've filed bug 64004 for this issue at bugs.gentoo.org under the
>assumption is that this is a distribution issue.
>
>--PC

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