[mythtv-users] How to delete a non-existent encoder from a non-existent machine?
Nick Morrott
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 21:25:22 UTC 2008
On 26/08/2008, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 08/26/2008 05:01 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> >> On a related issue, mythweb setup shows 7 machines. I only have 2 but
> >> apparently have used a variety of names for the second one I built,
> >> and mythweb remembers them all. This is confusing as well as being
> >> esthetically unpleasant. Any way to clean that up?
> >>
> > You'll need to remove entries from the settings table that have
> > associated hostnames that no longer exist on your mythtv network. I do
> > not think there is currently an automated or GUI-driver way to perform
> > this operation - a tool like phpMyAdmin may well be the easiest way.
>
>
> You can also do a MythTV database "spring cleaning" (i.e. a "new
> hardware"/partial restore of the DB). With that approach, though, you
> end up reconfiguring all your existing machines (which happens to allow
> you time to go through and see/set all the new settings that have
> appeared since you originally configured).
>
> Easiest way to do the backup/restore is:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore
Would the addition of a couple of commands like:
$ mythconverg_restore.pl --list_hostnames
and
$ mythconverg_restore.pl --delete_hostname --hostname="XXXX"
be useful in this scenario?
The former command would like all known hostnames defined in the dump,
and the latter would enable a user to selectively remove old hostname
cruft.
Nick
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