[mythtv-users] I broke my mythTV, help!

[Bill Meek]

On 11/7/18 4:26 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
> Good idea, and it's easily done in:/etc/mythtv/additional.args by creating a like like this
> and starting the backend again:
> 
> MYTHCONFDIR=/user/home/mythtv/.mythtv

Ignore the above, it won't work.

I just tested:

sudo systemctl edit mythtv-backend.service

and added the following two lines there:

[Service]
Environment="MYTHCONFDIR=/etc/mythtv"

That causes the backend to start with /etc/mythtv as the configuration
directory where it will find your config.xml (if it's still there.)

You should see entries in the backend log showing
that /etc/mythtv is being used:

... mythdirs.cpp:37 (InitializeMythDirs) - Read conf dir = /etc/mythtv (tells you MYTHCONFDIR is set)
... mythdirs.cpp:205 (InitializeMythDirs) - Using configuration directory = /etc/mythtv (shows it in use)

-- 
Bill