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

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/3/2014 6:20 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
> (including the hostname versus hostname at localhost versus
> hostname at ipaddress distinctions)

It will be whatever the system returns when you run `hostname` from a
terminal.  It will either be the hostname alone, or the FQDN
(hostname.domain.tld), depending on how your distro is configured.  The
"@" symbol is reserved for user names.

> if I have MythTV configured with a config.xml file (containing a
> unique identifier that does not match the machines hostname) and I
> accidentally run the FE or BE as the wrong user (say the desktop user
> instead of the mythtv user - ie meaning that the config.xml file will
> fail to be found as it will be in a different home directory) will
> MythTV automatically populate the settings table with a new host

Yes, however settings are only written as they are changed from the
defaults. An action such as described should only insert a handful of
configuration settings such as locale information.