[mythtv-users] Is there an approved may to remove frontend settings?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Feb 2 18:23:57 UTC 2014


On 2/2/2014 12:09 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 02/02/14 16:19, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 2/2/2014 7:18 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>> is there an approved way to remove old frontend hostnames from the
>>> database?
>>
>> Is there a reason to do so? All those old machine profiles are
>> consuming a
>> trivial amount of space compared to the seek tables and guide data.
>> The only
>> harm in keeping them around that I know of is the remote control in
>> Mythweb that
>> attempts to connect to each frontend control socket you have defined
>> in the
>> database.
>>
> Whenever this question is asked, the answer is always in terms of the
> space used. That is almost always /never/ why the question is asked.
> More like, it is an attempt by the user to clean out the table(s) so
> that fault finding becomes less of an exercise in hacking one's way
> through a jungle.

The point is that the user shouldn't be fiddling in the database to find 
it "unclean" except in the case of development, which would more 
appropriately belong on the -dev list.


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