<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Depends on what shell you are using, but it's usually something like <div><br></div><div>export <enviornment variable>=<value></div><div><br></div><div>You just type that command into your current shell and it will stick around until you close the Terminal window. If you always want it set, stick it in one of your shell startup scripts.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div><div><br><div><div><div>On Oct 30, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Bobby Gill wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Been adding new pvr and such, all is well but booted the BE up again and it doesn't start on boot, I have to start it myself each time:<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2008-10-30 21:52:49.737 Using runtime prefix = /usr, libdir = /usr/lib</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2008-10-30 21:52:49.789 Cannot locate your home directory. Please set the environment variable HOME or MYTHCONFDIR</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2008-10-30 21:52:49.933 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> <br>How do I set the environment variable? I found a few threads on Ubuntuforums but they were related to dysfunctional SQL DBs, not the case here...<br><br><br>Thanks<br>Bob<br> _______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>