[mythtv-users] Gentoo box resets /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt on boot

[David Brieck Jr.]

On 4/24/05, Niklas Brunlid <nbr at ticalc.org> wrote:
> I'm building a big nice hidden backend running on Gentoo. Installed ivtv
> and mythtv 0.17 just fine, and after editing mysql.txt (present in five
> directories) and running mythsetup it connected fine and appeared as a
> slave backend to my now-master, soon-to-be-slave backend/frontend.
> 
> But when I reboot, mythbackend uses /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt,
> which is _always_ set to the default values, no matter if I edit it or
> delete it. Now, the server will of course not be rebooted that often, but
> I really wouldn't like to have my master backend not start up properly
> after a power outage... =)
> 
> /etc/init.d/mythbackend was added to "default" runlevels after compilation
> had finished.
> 
> In /etc/conf.d/mythbackend, I have:
>   MYTH_USER=root
>   MYTH_PID=/var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
> 
> Running from commandline works fine, just can't start the service unless I
> manually correct /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt first.
> 
> / Niklas
> 
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You should put your values in /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt