[mythtv-users] service mythbackend start fails - HOME env variable

[Yeechang Lee]

Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> says:
> I used to edit that init.d script to explicitly set HOME, but it got
> wiped out by every mythtv upgrade.

An easy solution is to simply add something like

   export MYTHCONFDIR=/var/lib/mythtv

to /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend (and in the .bashrc of whatever user
runs mythfrontend and mythtv-setup). No need to edit the init.d
script. Move everything in whatever .mythtv directory one has been
using previouslly to what MYTHCONFDIR is set to. Channel icons' paths
will have to be reset; I did a find-and-replace query in the database.

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