[mythtv-users] mythbackend init script

Ryan Dalzell mythtv at tullyroan.com
Sun Mar 13 18:23:47 UTC 2005


On Friday 11 March 2005 23:17, Matt Smith wrote:
> mythbackend init script supplied my gentoo emerge does not work.
> As root, everytime I execute "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start" it say
> "can not open
> database" in the logs. However (still as root), if I start
> "mythbackend" at the command
> prompt - it works fine? Any ideas?

Yep, if there is a .mythtv directory in /var/run/mythtv then delete it.

There could be a mysql.txt file in there that is not pointing to your 
database.

Cheers,
-Ryan


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