[mythtv-users] Connection timeout

Dean Harding dean.harding at dload.com.au
Wed Jul 2 05:51:08 UTC 2008


Gino Heusdens wrote:
> I figured out that I forgot to change the credentials in 1 mysql.txt 
> file. Another question that I have is why there are so many mysql.txt 
> file to configure? Why is the one in /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt not the only 
> one to configure? Whats the benefit that in every user directory an 
> other mysql.txt file can be found? Anyone who can explain me?

 From what I understand, /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt is only relevent on some 
distribution's binary packaging of MythTV. If you manually compile (or 
use a different distribution) the mysql.txt file is always in 
$HOME/.mythtv/mysql.txt

Given that it's always relative to $HOME, that means there'll be one 
mysql.txt for each user you run your MythTV processes as. Often that's 
root for mythbackend and someone else for mythfrontend. And possibly 
even someone else yet again for mythfilldatabase or mythtranscode, 
depending on your particular setup.

Dean.



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