XBMC-standalone config files location [solved]

My HTPC seems to have corrupted one of the XBMC config files (probably the library) and now it doesn't seem to be able to add any videos (even with .nfo files) to the library (and it has lost quite a lot of videos that were already there).
I've looked everywhere to try and delete the config files however I can't seem to find where they are when XBMC is started using systemctl (I thought I'd struck gold with "/usr/share/xbmc/system/" however deleting them didn't help).
So far I've tried removing and re-installing XBMC and deleting /usr/share/xbmc/system (which is removed when uninstalling XBMC) and it doesn't seem to have reset configuration is there anywhere else I should look?
Thanks for the help.
Last edited by Aradreth (2013-10-19 12:32:48)

There is no XBMC folder in any of the users under /home/ as it is run by the XBMC user created by the package. However you did make me think of looking at the .install file for where is puts the home directory for the user and the config files are in there ('/var/lib/xbmc/.xbmc/' if anyone else ever needs to find them).
Problem solved.
Thanks
Last edited by Aradreth (2013-10-19 12:33:35)

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fi
done < "$CONFIG"
numarrayelements=${#line_array[@]}
and then in the main program code, do this:
readconf "system"
for index in $( seq $numarrayelements ); do
line=${line_array[(($index-1))]}
echo $line
done
Using an array to collect the good lines from the function allows you to reuse them later for whatever purpose. Although other ways exist, you certainly don't want to do what you originally did.
Edit:
I posted the code with an incorrectly referenced variable and had to fix it.
Last edited by MrWeatherbee (2007-11-04 22:46:34)

Location of MTA and POA config files:

Hello. I'm reading an article from cool tools by Kiril Stankov regarding
moving a groupwise database to a new volume or server. In step 4 he says
if you are moving data between servers make sure to copy the POA, MTA,
WAA and GWIA config files. The only one I can find is the gwia.cfg. I
looked under SYS:\system for the others and can't find them anywhere.
Thanks

> What's in grpwise.ncf ?
>
> It should be something like
>
> LOAD SYS:\SYSTEM\GWPOA @POA.POA
> LOAD SYS:\SYSTEM\GWMTA @MTA.MTA
LOAD SYS:\SYSTEM\GWPOA @CTCPO.POA
LOAD SYS:\SYSTEM\GWMTA @CTCMAIL.MTA
> the files you want are the ones after the @ sign, and they should be in
> the directory referred to in the load bit, in this case sys:\system
Ok. So I can, in my case anyway, just copy my SYS directory over if I
choose too
> Cheers Dave
>
>
> --
> Dave Parkes [NSCS]
> Occasionally resident at http://support-forums.novell.com/

[SOLVED] Resetting config files from a package

Suppose I modify a file called /etc/examplefile.conf from a package example-package.
What is the easiest / most elegant way to reset this file? Reset = restore the file to its original, removing my modifications.
This[1] topic discusses this, but it is two years old. I would say the "best" solution there was the one suggested in #7:
you could move the config file first then reinstall.
But I'm not sure if this is safe. For a dummy example, removing /etc/pacman.conf then reinstalling pacman wouldn't probably be a good idea (I suspect this wouldn't work).
OBS.: Getting the original file from the package from the cache is an obvious solution, but I'm searching for a simpler (more direct) way to do this (a bash/zsh one-liner would be sufficient, for example).
[1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137526
Last edited by thiagowfx (2014-04-26 21:49:20)

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