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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/25/2008 01:57 PM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 04/25/2008 01:27 PM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.

Are you using the mythbackend start scripts that Nick Morrott worked 
on?  I think they're a standard part of the ATrpms packages.  They're 
the (fedora) ones at 
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/branches/release-0-21-fixes/mythtv/contrib/init_scripts 
.

Mike