[mythtv-users] Help, frontends cannot connect to backend

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 17:08:02 UTC 2006


> So, I suppose the first question is, How does the frontend know the
> namee/addeess of the Myth backend to atempt to connect to? Is it stored in
> the database (makes sense that it would be, since the backend connects
> directly to that).
>
This info is stored in two places /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt and
~/.mythtv/mysql.txt. I believe the latter is used if it exists
otherwise myth uses /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt.

John


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