On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:23:10 +1000, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
Certainly an option. I didn't go that path because I hold out hope for the real time threads feature. I did think about having a similar option to drop privs early in mythbackend, just after the real-time threads have been spawned. The patch I wrote solved my problem while keeping changes localised - it looked like a much less invasive change.
Cheers,
Will :-}
-- Dr William Uther National ICT Australia Phone: +61 2 9385 6357 Computer Science and Engineering Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of New South Wales Web: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ Sydney, Australia
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