[mythtv-users] Starting Slave backend

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Sun Jul 22 13:12:12 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:19:00AM +0100, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 15/07/07, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just set up a new slave backend.  Some how my mysql on that box got hosed
> > and is not working.  So i figured if i made it a slaveBE it would be fine
> > since its not using the local db.  When i start mythbackend as root from
> > terminal it works fine.  but when i start the BE as a service it crashes.
> > when i check to logs its because it is trying to connect to the local mysql.
> >  how do i stop this?
> >
> >
> > I have my /root/.mythtv/mysql.txt set correctly.
> 
> Mitch,
> 
> I'm guessing you're using atrpms.net binaries on Fedora? I've been
> doing a fair amount of work on the Fedora init and config scripts, and
> this is one of the more frequent issues I've seen users have when
> running mythbackend as a service, rather than from a terminal prompt.

Patches are welcome, but

o they need to provide backwards compatibility to the previous rpms,
  of course
o need to default to running mythtv backend under root on Red Hat like
  setups (including Fedora) due to the distros' console permissions
  policy and the need for certain rt capabilities.

Thanks!

> I just checked the mythbackend initscript which you will be using if
> you are using the atrpms.net release of MythTV. This starts the
> mythbackend program as a daemon but without the '--user' option, which
> means that (at least as I understand things) $HOME is not set (it will
> default to /) - which is why users find MythTV config files off the /
> folder. When running mythbackend from a terminal, $HOME is correctly
> set and config files are read from and written too the expected
> location for that user (/root/.mythtv/ for root, and
> /home/user/.mythtv/ for regular users).
> 
> I have some further refinements which will hopefully be commited soon
> by skamithi on ticket http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3573.
> 

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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