On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <j...@ocjtech.us> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Ok, reviving this conversation! >>> >>> I ran into the issue that user "mythtv" can not create the file >>> "/var/run/mythbackend.pid". I see other services that have their pid >>> file owned by their own user... >> >> systemd doesn't really need a PID file to manage the service, can >> mythtv be told not to create it? If it insists on creating it see if >> you can move it to a subdirectory of /run (like /run/mythtv) that is >> owned by mythtv. > > Well PIDFile is recommended when using type forking. One option would > be to drop the "--daemon" option and move to type "simple".
I tried this and it appears to work. >>> Also, user "mythtv" can't write to the log file in /var/log/mythtv/ >> >> Change the ownership of /var/log/mythtv. I added "install -d -o mythtv -g mythtv /var/log/mythtv" to %post for the backend package. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
