PingHost setting in config.xml does not work

[vah78@…]

The pinging of the mysql server at program (mythbackend, mythfrontend, mythlogserver, etc.) start cannot be disabled with this setting. This is a problem when mysql is running on a different host and ping is either not installed or does not work as a non-root user. Thus, ping fails and programs starts to prompt connection settings from the user.

I did reconfigure using the command line prompts with mythbackend and GUI prompts with mythfrontend, and both correctly(?) saved the setting as "<PingHost?>0</PingHost?>" to config.xml, but it does not stop them from trying to ping when started next time.

Tested on Arch Linux with MythTV version 0.26 from community repository. (This did work up to version 0.25.2 but that probably still used the old mysql.txt even though it created a config.xml in ~/.mythtv.)

As a workaround, a dummy shell script as the ping command in user's path will do the trick: #!/bin/sh exit 0

[Raymond Wagner <rwagner@…>]

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[Raymond Wagner <rwagner@…>]

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