[mythtv] Hostname change broke mythtv, yet alittle more complicated than sed can fix...

James Armstrong james at thearmstrongs.org
Wed Oct 18 12:47:35 UTC 2006


On 10/18/2006 8:46 AM, James Armstrong wrote:
> On 10/18/2006 8:44 AM, James Armstrong wrote:
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>> On 10/18/2006 4:29 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>> On 10/18/06 02:47, Kenneth Padgett wrote:
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>>>> So it wasn't until after a change in hostname did I realize mythtv was
>>>> going to break everything and loose track of my settings, recordings,
>>>> everything basically, but even worse, it created new junk hostname
>>>> settings and such I need to get rid of!!!
>>>>
>>>> The problem actually was caused by a swap out of routers and change in
>>>> reverse DNS (which is how my box has been getting it's names). Anyway,
>>>> the problem I have now is, through various router swaps/reconfigures,
>>>> the box has taken on 3 different names over the past year (3 different
>>>> routers w/ different DNS names wouldn't you know), and there's three
>>>> sets of settings. The ones I want is mythtv.local, the others are
>>>> pvr.lan and localhost.localdomain. The box is now named
>>>> localhost.localdomain as I realized naming the box on the router's DNS
>>>> is what was causing all this, so I give up with that. Also, I can't
>>>> easily go back to mythtv.local on my router, I know, that would be too
>>>> easy.
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>> I (and others) have had this problem before and I believe for a long 
>> time now there can be a hostname override in the mythtv.txt file.
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> /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt
> DBHostName=whatever it used to be
> /listinfo/mythtv-dev
>   
Sorry, scratch that. It is:
LocalHostName=

Dbhostname is the database host.

- James


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