On 03/08/07, John Pierce john.j35@gmail.com wrote:
And I was using the atrpms myth packages, it just did not have a .mysql.txt file in the / folder.
The mythbackend init script available from atrpms.net does not setup $HOME when the script is run at boot time. This means that $HOME defaults to / which is why you end up with /.mythtv/ entries in the filesystem.
The updated scripts in MythTV SVN (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/contrib/init_scripts) have been updated to daemonise mythbackend with a user (defaults to root, see below) so that the MythTV config entries are created/read at init time for a real user.
When starting mythbackend from a terminal, $HOME is already configured and so mythbackend uses $HOME/.mythtv/. This is the reason you can end up with separate MythTV configurations in /, /root/ and /home/mythtv/ if you also run mythfrontend as the user 'mythtv'
The reason the atrpms.net scripts do not use the daemonise 'user' option is due to the lack of the audio and video groups on Fedora. mythbackend requires access to the AV hardware when it starts and by default on Fedora, only the root user has access to this. A user needs to amend their installation's console permissions/udev scripts to allow non-root users the access to the capture hardware they require to allow mythbackend to run as another user.