<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Perkins</b> <<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Nick Morrott wrote:<br>...snip<br>><br>> mysql.txt can reside in:<br>><br>> [1] /.mythtv/mysql.txt<br>> [2] /home/$MYTHTV_USER/.mythtv/mysql.txt<br>> [3] /root/.mythtv/mysql.txt<br>> [4] /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt
<br>> [5] /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt<br>> [6] /usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt<br>> [7] /usr/local/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt<br>><br>...snip<br><br>As a matter of interest, can someone enlighten me as why this file
<br>appears in so many places? I wouldn't have considered it necessary to<br>put this information in more than one place, /etc/mythtv is probably<br>where it needs to be.</blockquote><div><br><br>Hi Mike,<br><br>You are correct. The directory /etc/mythtv is likely where it needs to be, or at least where the process will search by default. I come from the BSD world, FreeBSD specifically, and as far as I understand it, paths beginning with /usr/share are where config files are placed upon installation of the package for documentation and purposes of example.
<br><br>The instances where the file appears in a home directoy, /root being the home for the root user, of course, it could be an instance of the process being executed as that particular user. But I'm not sure why that would happen.
<br><br>Anyway, I hope this helps a little.<br><br>-Rich<br><br></div><br></div><br>