[mythtv-users] mythbackend fails silenty

Graeme Wilford gwilford at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 15:26:00 UTC 2005


On 14/09/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 09/14/05 03:52, Graeme Wilford wrote:
> 
> >Turned out that running mythbackend on the command line caused it to
> >pick up mysql.txt from ~root/.mythtv/ and running it via 'service' or
> >directly via the init script caused it to pick up mysql.txt from
> >/.mythtv/ This is on FC3.
> >
> >Wiping out /.mythtv/mysql.txt and linking it back to
> >~/root/.mythtv/mysql.txt did the trick for me.
> >
> >
> Probably better off copying the file (or, even better, moving the file
> and chown'ing it since root doesn't need it) from root's home directory
> to mythtv's.  No normal users should have access to any files in root's
> home (or the directory itself).  This won't affect Myth directly, but is
> a much cleaner approach overall.

root does need it if you ever start mythbackend by hand as root, hence
having one copy of mysql.txt in ~root/.mythtv/ with and the other one
in /.mythtv/ symlinked back to it. You only ever need maintain one
file then...

btw, I think this might actually be an FC3 or ATrpm build problem as
mythbackend shouldn't really be looking in /.mythtv/ for anything on
FC3.

Cheers,
Wilf. 
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