[ATrpms-users] Mythbackend will not start after upgrade to Mythtv ver 174

[Thomas Koschate]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Ben Caldwell <benny.caldwell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just fixed this myself last night, the problem here seems to be that an
> export command must not have the $ before the variable (this is from my own
> experiences with Fedora 8, not sure if this is distro specific).
>
> The fix:  in /etc/init.d/mythbackend find the part that says "export
> $HOME"  and change to "export HOME". Check that there aren't any
> other export commands in this file that need the same change.
>

This is true in any flavour of Unix, and if the script was written that way,
it's in error.  Executing "export $HOME" will have the effect of creating an
environment variable named whatever the value of $HOME happens to be, in all
likelihood with a blank value.

For example,
      #HOME=/home/koschate
      #export $HOME

would be the same as doing
      #export /home/koschate

which is pretty much a pointless exercise.
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Thomas Koschate
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