[mythtv-users] Cannot locate your home directory. Please set the environment variable HOME or MYTHCONFDIR

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/25/2008 01:27 PM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> 2008-04-25 19:12:47.964 Cannot locate your home directory. Please set
>> the environment variable HOME or MYTHCONFDIR
>>
>> This message only goes away when mythbackend has a user specified with
>> -v on the commandline.
>>   
> 
> -v?  The verbosity flag?  Perhaps it goes away because you disabled log 
> output?

oops. `--user` instead.

>> Setting HOME/MYTHCONFIR in /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend does not help.
>>   
> 
> Are you exporting it (set HOME, do not set MYTHCONFDIR).

I either run mythbackend directly, from my terminal window, which works.

Or I run it using the fedora/redhat SysV startup scripts, using `service
mythbackend start`. In the SysV case mythbackend complains, even when I
start it as root, with valid $HOME, etc.
Even specifying these (as asked by mythbackend in the log) in
/etc/sysconfig/mythbackend, which is read by the startup script, does
not help.