[mythtv-users] mythbackend looking for wrong ip address

Ralf Kleineisel ralf at kleineisel.de
Tue Oct 30 21:45:49 UTC 2007


Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:

>         You can verify this to be the problem by attempting to restart 
> the backend: 
>                 sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart
>         Then checking that the backend successfully started: 
>                 ps -p `cat /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid`
>  
> That gave me this message (among a bunch of other stuff)...
>             Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.1.2' (113)
> ...my mysql.txt file is setup for 192.168.1.3...so where could this 
> 192.168.1.2 setting be stored? When i just run mythbackend as root, all 
> works great, when i run mythtv-backend start, it fails. why and how is 
> this happening?

Does Ubuntu have something like /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend? This is 
where the init.d configs go in Fedora.


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