[mythtv-users] cannot mkdir //.xmltv

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/27/2006 03:23 PM, Hansa wrote:
> >From mythbackend.log:
>
> 2006-05-27 17:38:58.389 ----------------- Start of XMLTV
> output -----------------
> 2006-05-27 17:38:58.392 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2006-05-27 17:38:58.394 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> cannot mkdir //.xmltv: Permission denied at
> /usr/share/perl5/XMLTV/Config_file.pm line 24.
> 2006-05-27 17:39:00.499 ------------------ End of XMLTV
> output ------------------
> Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file
>
> The backend wants to make a directory for some reason but I'm not sure why
> in //.xmltv?
> It looks like there should be something between the slashes like
> /path_to/.xmltv
>
> Why does it want to create this dir? There is one in /home/mythtv/.xmltv

The backend is running in an environment without the HOME variable set.  
You can just put

export HOME=/home/mythtv

into the script that runs mythbackend (before starting mythbackend).

Mike