[mythtv-users] MythTV Webmin module - anyone interested?

Scott LeBrun slebrun at scopus.vic.edu.au
Tue Feb 10 21:21:31 EST 2004


Hi guys.

I'm developing a Webmin module to enable configuration of the MythTV
backend. The primary reason for this is the backend I'm developing it
for will not have X installed at all - why install X to just run the
backend setup?

This module will create the database from scratch, if it doesn't exist,
and allow you to set anything that you normally would using the backend
setup program.

Why not just use any of the existing MySQL editing tools such as the
MySQL Webmin module or MyPHPAdmin?  These tools rely on the user knowing
exactly what tables and fields to edit and don't enforce any error
checking on the data entered. These tools also cannot create the
database from scratch without having a SQL import file. I think this
little project would be quite useful.

Further development ideas involve replicating all the modules setup
configuration which would normally be done using the frontend. I don't
know about the rest of you guys, but my frontend doesn't normally have a
keyboard attached. :-)

Would anyone else be interested in this?

Scott


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