[mythtv-users] strange NFS problem

Dan Boger mythtv at peeron.com
Mon Feb 16 21:58:24 EST 2004


On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:10:04PM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> I just looked at the code and it checks RecordFilePrefix in the
> settings table, but that appears to be a backend-only setting. I have
> a RecordFilePrefix entry for one of my frontend-only systems though so
> I'm not sure how that got there. Can you check your settings table and
> see if your remote frontend has a RecordFilePrefix entry. If not, add
> one and see if that makes it start reading directly from the NFS
> server. It might be a bug that it doesn't work if you've never had a
> backend on the machine your frontend is on. I don't remember setting
> up a backend on my frontend-only machine though so I don't know why
> that entry exists.

That did it - the setting wasn't there for the frontend (which has never
had a backend on it).  Guess that should be set up for both during setup?



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