[mythtv-users] Ownership of .nuv files/deleting problems

[Gregory J. McGee]

> Message: 15
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:57:57 +0200
> From: Maarten <mythtv at ultratux.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Ownership of .nuv files/deleting problems
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <200405251457.57814.mythtv at ultratux.org>
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> On Tuesday 25 May 2004 13:19, Asciimonster wrote:
> > I'm running mythbackend as a service, therefore the ownership of the
> > .nuv it produces is root:root (with permission 644). However I'm
> running
> > mythfrontend as a user (not root).  This is no problem until I try
> to
> > delete the recordings, that's when mythfrontend crashes/locks up. 
> It
> > can't delete then since it's not allowed to.
> 
> In addition to my reply some minutes ago, are you really sure about
> that ?
> Because I run a remote frontend, not as root and not having mounted
> the remote 
> video storage directory, and it works fine (mythbackend is running as
> root).
> So, there _must_ be another reason for this behaviour you're
> experiencing.
> 
> If I recall correctly mythfrontend just tells mythbackend to delete a
> file, 
> through the TCP port and/or the mysql db. It does not attempt to
> delete the 
> file by itself (and obviously, IF it did that would really wreak havoc
> when 
> using multiple frontends, too).  So you have to look elsewhere... 
> 
> Maarten
> 
> > I've configured cron to change the ownership changed every half
> hour.
> > But is there a more elegant way to solve this?
> >
Mine is set up the same way, and I have no issues running the frontend
as the default user anyway (me).

Add all(?) users to group mythtv...

chggrp -R mythtv /mythtv (?) (assuming /mythtv contains all the myth*
directories like mythvideo/mythaudio etc)