[mythtv] Using a unique key instead of hostname in settings

Allan Stirling Dibblahmythml0015 at pendor.org
Fri Dec 16 05:55:21 EST 2005


Tomas Edwardsson wrote:
> I have been having problems with having to reconfigure frontends because 
> someone changed a hostname or domainname. Wouldn't it make more sense 
> that when generating the initial config the host would generate a unique 
> ID and save it onto the filesystem. It can then be the hosts unique id 
> for all settings.

In mysql.txt:
DBHostName=MyUniqueKey

And this is probably a users question, more than -dev.

Cheers,

Allan.


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