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William Uther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 07/01/2005, at 9:51 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> If you're root then that seems odd. The only things I would have
>> thought likely to do that are the permissions on /dev/rtc which
>> should be irrelevant as root can open any file. The other thing
>> would be the dev.rtc.max-user-freq kernel configuration value but
>> that only limits non-root users.
>>
>> Maybe your kernel (or your hardware) has some hard limit on the
>> setting of the RTC frequency?
>
> I guess I lied slightly. :) I'm running the front end setuid root.
> Maybe the front end is dropping root privs in the relevant thread
> before trying to do what it is doing? Hmm, /dev/rtc is rw by group
> audio, and user mythtv is in that group.
That sounds likely. I'd try checking the other setting with:
sysctl dev.rtc.max-user-freq
If it is less than 1024 then that is probably the problem. You
can increase it with:
sysctl -w dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024
and add it to /etc/sysctl.conf to make it permanent.
Tom
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