[mythtv-users] Saving recordings as root

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Michael Denver wrote:

>Michael Denver wrote:
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>>When I record a tv show it creates the file with root being the owner. So I
>>have to chown the file in order to watch it. Any ideas why they are not
>>being created with my mythtv user being the owner?
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>>You backend is running as root and saving the files as such (which is
>>fairly normal).  You shouldn't need to chown the files at all to play
>>them since the files *should* look something like this:
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     893208512 May  5 18:00
>>2028_20040505173000_20040505180000.nuv
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>The files are being saved with -rw-r----- permissions. My umask is 0022
>which should give read permission to all right?
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A umask 0022  should result in your files being -rw-r--r--...  Are you 
sure root has the same umask everyone else does?