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

[Torbjörn Jansson]

mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org <> 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.
> 
> I've configured cron to change the ownership changed every half hour.
> But is there a more elegant way to solve this?
> 

How are you deleting the .nuv files?

It's always the backend that deletes the files if you delete them the way
you are supposed to (from mythfrontend or mythweb), the permissions is not
going to be a problem.
As long a the backend is able to delete the files it created.