Yes, it now makes sense.
I couldn't find any file that was causing your issues. I didn't realise that you also ran the update_oztivo command. I thought you only ran the installer update.
The update loads a new file to fix the server and port. It looks for '80' in the Port and then replaces it with 9090. But in your case you had 8000, so it only replaced the first 2 digits leaving 909000.
Mystery solved.
As for the second part, like I said earlier, update only runs rsync to get the newest files. In this unique case we added a new file to be run on boot and then delete itself. This file looks in a few places and replaces 'minnie.tuhs.org' with 'www.oztivo.net', '131.244.9.101' with '65.49.60.197', and emulator '80' with '9090'. Unfortunately the NZ emulator is 8000, so it was changed to 909000. Again we never thought a person in New Zealand would run update-oztivo.
Peter.
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