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

[Niklas Brunlid]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:45:21 -0400, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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.
>
> You should put your values in /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt

Turns out the solution was easy; set MYTH_PID in /etc/conf.d/mythbackend  
to point to /etc/mythtv/mythbackend.pid . It seems something th the  
startup pichs the folder from that value and uses the settings from  
there... and if the folder doesn't exist it is recreated. :)

/ Niklas