On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 06:35:25PM +0100, Derek Scollon wrote: > Here's an odd problem. I've just recently set up MythTV for the > first time and have been using it for a few days. Yesterday, I > noticed a few programmes recorded where commercial flagging had > failed with an error, unable to open file. > > I went looking in the recordings folder and thought it might be a > file permissions problem. mythbackend and mtd are both run at > startup as root and mythfrontend is run after logging in as mythtv. > Most of the recordings files were owned by root with file > permissions 644. I changed the existing files' owner and group to > mythtv and set the setuid and setgid bits on the folder with the > intention of making all new files owned by mythtv. The result is not > quite what I expected. Every file since then has its group as mythtv > but its owner is either mythtv or root in a pattern which seems > random, and I can no longer watch any recordings. When I select a > recording in mythfrontend, it takes no action when asked to play it. > > I'm assuming this is a problem with what I've done with file and > folder permissions, since I can still watch TV and videos (which are > in a different folder). The question is, with the backend running as > root and the frontend running as mythtv, what should the file owner > and permissions be for recordings? And if the file's owner is > mythtv, why would either the mythtv user or root have any problem > accessing it?
This doesn't answer your question, but why not run everything (mythbackend, mtd, mythfrontend) as the mythtv user? You shouldn't need to run any of this as root ... --Rob
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