[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase autorun config file location error

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 16:26 +0100, Neil Sedger wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > Because the environment from which this is being run doesn't have a HOME 
> > environment variable defined.
> Indeed. How odd. I thought that Fedora initscripts would automatically pick up the user's (root) environment. A quick test shows it doesn't even have $USER!
> I've edited the initscript to hardcode the HOME var as you suggested, thanks.
> I'd have thought this problem would happen to more people though, I haven't seen it mentioned in the docs, install guide or FAQ.

I would think very few people run mythfilldatabase as root..

Too many people do something crazy like run mythbackend or mythfrontend
as root, but I've never seen anyone recommend running mythfilldatabase
that way.

-- Daniel