On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:17:30AM +1000, William Uther wrote: > I run my backend as root. I recently switched from running > mythfilldatabase as a cron job to using the internal method... it > stopped working. The problem was that with filldb running as root, it > didn't have the correct home dir set, and so it couldn't find the > tv_grab_au prefs. > > Attached is a patch to add an option to mythfilldatabase that allows > it to switch users on startup. This has two effects: > - the home dir will be set correctly when it tries to get the grabber > prefs > - the grabber script is no longer being run as root
Why not run the backend as non-root instead? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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