[mythtv-users] UPDATED: Bash/MySQL script for copying and/or deleting mythfrontend profiles

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/12/2010 04:14 PM, Matt Beadon wrote:
>>
>> I'm interested in the delete hostname function since I happen to have a
>> few leftover invalid entries in my DB from changing my hostname without
>> doing it the "mythtv way".
>
> Let me just mention that if the old settings associated with old hostnames
> were actually a problem, MythTV would include a mechanism for getting rid of
> them.  As it is, keeping them in place wastes about 8kiB of storage space on
> your hard drive--maybe 16kiB at most, depending on a few factors.
>
> That's not megabytes or gigabytes...  We're talking less than 16384 bytes.
>  And, in truth--because of the way file systems work--that's probably space
> that was already wasted (as empty, but allocated, space) due to the file
> system's block size.

My only issue is with aesthetics.  There are some MythWeb pages with a
drop-down menu of frontends to select from, and there's this
"localhost.localdomain" entry that always bothers me...

Jim