[mythtv-users] Gentoo box resets /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt on boot [SOLVED]

[Chad]

On 4/24/05, Niklas Brunlid <nbr at ticalc.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:45:21 -0400, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 4/24/05, Niklas Brunlid <nbr at ticalc.org> wrote:
> >> I'm building a big nice hidden backend running on Gentoo. Installed ivtv
> >> and mythtv 0.17 just fine, and after editing mysql.txt (present in five
> >> directories) and running mythsetup it connected fine and appeared as a
> >> slave backend to my now-master, soon-to-be-slave backend/frontend.
> >>
> >> But when I reboot, mythbackend uses /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt,
> >> which is _always_ set to the default values, no matter if I edit it or
> >> delete it. Now, the server will of course not be rebooted that often,
> >> but
> >> I really wouldn't like to have my master backend not start up properly
> >> after a power outage... =)
> >>
> >> /etc/init.d/mythbackend was added to "default" runlevels after
> >> compilation
> >> had finished.
> >>
> >> In /etc/conf.d/mythbackend, I have:
> >>   MYTH_USER=root
> >>   MYTH_PID=/var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
> >>
> >> Running from commandline works fine, just can't start the service
> >> unless I
> >> manually correct /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt first.
> >
> > You should put your values in /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt
> 
> Turns out the solution was easy; set MYTH_PID in /etc/conf.d/mythbackend
> to point to /etc/mythtv/mythbackend.pid . It seems something th the
> startup pichs the folder from that value and uses the settings from
> there... and if the folder doesn't exist it is recreated. :)
> 
> / Niklas
> 

Sweet!

Thanks!