On 17/11/11 22:09, Richard Shaw wrote: > 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.
The other option is to create a file in /etc/tmpfiles.d that defines the /var/run/mythtv (or /run/mythtv) directory so that you can then write the PID file to it. >>>> 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? Yes! Create it in the %install section if the spec file and then add it to the files list. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel