[mythtv-users] Cannot locate your home directory. Please set the environment variable HOME or MYTHCONFDIR

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 17:44:24 UTC 2008


You can put `export HOME=/home/mythuser/` (replacing 'mythuser'
appropriately) in your mythbackend startup script. This will also fix
the problem.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  2008-04-25 19:12:47.964 Cannot locate your home directory. Please set
>  the environment variable HOME or MYTHCONFDIR
>
>  This message only goes away when mythbackend has a user specified with
>  -v on the commandline.
>  Setting HOME/MYTHCONFIR in /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend does not help.




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