[mythtv-users] mythbackend not starting on slave (FOUND WHY!)

[Michael T. Dean]

Steve Malenfant wrote:

>Ok... So I run updatedb and "locate mysql.txt"  Found one in
>/.mythtv/mysql.txt.  I'm not sure why the file was there and why it
>was set to localhost.  So I've changed that param and it started
>working!  PREFIX at atrpms set to "/" ?  I tried to use the MYTHTVDIR
>env but it doesn't seems to work.
>  
>
Someone was starting Myth from an init script without a proper 
environment (i.e. without a HOME environment variable set), so when Myth 
auto-created the ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt with the default settings, it got 
put into /.mythtv/ ...

Mike