[mythtv-users] Copy settings from one hostname to another scripts or new MythWEB features

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/20/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 3/2/06, Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
> >
> >>> 1.  Be able to copy all the settings, keybindings, jumppoints, playlists  to
> >>> another new hostname for a new frontend,  bacicly SELECT * from TABLE where
> >>> HOSTNAME="myGoodFrontEnd"  then INSERT INTO TABLE   values  SET
> >>> HOSTNAME=NewHostName..
> >>>
> >>      REPLACE INTO settings (data, value. hostname)
> >>              SELECT (data, value, "new_host")
> >>                FROM settings
> >>               WHERE hostname = "old_host";
> >>
> >> (yes, that's one query)
> >>
> >> It seems that there is no "unique" index on the settings table, so it
> >> looks like you might also need:
> >>
> >>      DELETE FROM settings WHERE hostname = "old_host"
> >>
> >> -Chris
> >>
> >
> > I've run into a situation where I want to do this, but when I run,
> >
> > REPLACE INTO settings (data, value. hostname) SELECT (data, value,
> > "MythCenter") FROM settings WHERE hostname="MythBox";
> >
> > I get,
> > ERROR 1241 (21000): Operand should contain 1 column(s)
> >
> >
> I think that's supposed to be (data, value, hostname) not (data, value.
> hostname)
>
> Kevin

good catch, sadly, that doesn't seem to fix the error =(

-- 
Steve
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