[mythtv-users] Divorcing MySQL from front/backend combo

David myth at dgreaves.com
Fri Mar 18 09:49:26 UTC 2005


Tom
It would be useful if you could write this up onto the wiki - it's 
something I've been wondering about too :)

David

Tom Lichti wrote:

> Cross-posted to mysettopbox.tv/KnoppMyth discussion board:
>
> I have a single box serving as DB/back/frontend, and I'd like to 
> utilize my already running separate DB server, but it doesn't quite 
> work. I first dumped all mythconverg data from my running box, 
> imported it into my DB server, edited the mysql.txt file to point to 
> the new DB server, stopped mysql on the Myth box, and restarted back 
> and front ends. Everything works fine, I can watch TV, browse the EPG, 
> record, playback, etc, the only thing that doesn't work (and is a 
> showstopper) is that mythfilldatabase fails with an error about not 
> being able to connect to the database. I haven't dug too much into it, 
> but does mythfilldatabase not use the mysql.txt settings? And has 
> anyone done this successfully? Perhaps I could setup mythfilldatabase 
> to run on the db server....kind of a hack though...
>
> Thanks
> Tom
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list