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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

setting home environment variable

I have mythbackend as daemon in rc.conf, and it does not start on boot, with the following error from the log:

2008-10-30 21:52:49.737 Using runtime prefix = /usr, libdir = /usr/lib
2008-10-30 21:52:49.789 Cannot locate your home directory. Please set the environment variable HOME or MYTHCONFDIR
2008-10-30 21:52:49.933 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.

Now I put this in my ~/.bashrc:

# Set $HOME variable
export $HOME=/home/myuser

But this will not kick-in on boot, right? How do I set it so it happens at boot before the mythbackend daemon starts?

TIA for any help

Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

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Re: setting home environment variable

You can always just add it to the daemon's start up script I suppose.

nano /etc/rc.d/mythbackend

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: setting home environment variable

export $HOME=/home/myuser

That's a syntax error, for a start. Remove the dollar sign.

PeteMo

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From: H'Burg, VA

Registered: 2006-01-26

Posts: 191

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Re: setting home environment variable

I don't think setting a variable in ~/.bashrc is going to help at boot time...

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: setting home environment variable

Yes I was seeing the error show when I opened a shell. I don't want to mess with the mythbackend script as I constantly update myth via svn and it gets overwritten.

Where can I add it so it takes effect at boot??

Thanks

pyther

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Registered: 2008-01-21

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Re: setting home environment variable

You could probably create a new script and load it before the myth one

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my0pic

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 206

Re: setting home environment variable

As per the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Myt … kend_setup
you add it to /etc.rc.conf

HOME="/root"

I have in my rc.conf

MYTHCONFDIR=/home/mythtv

Have a look here as well http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Myt … _Variables

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: setting home environment variable

Thanks so much my0pic! If any errors on reboot I'll post back but I think that will work