Author: Christian Marillat Date: To: dmo-discussion Subject: Re: mythtv v34 installation if user 'mythtv' is already created?
On 01 mars 2024 09:03, James Abernathy <jfabernathy@???> wrote:
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> This seems to be caused by the fact that the installation added a line
> in the mythtv-backend.service within systemd that reads:
>
> Environment=HOME=/var/lib/mythtv
>
> I can fix my problem by changing that to:
>
> Environment=HOME=/home/mythtv
>
> IMHO, the installation should check for the existence of the user
> 'mythtv' and use its $HOME as the right value to put in the systemd
> service file.
We already check HOME in mythtv-backend.postinst and
mythtv-common.postinst with this command:
getent passwd mythtv | awk -F: '{ print $6}'
But I don't know how to do that in the service file.
