[mythtv-users] DVB Devices

A Thomson alunt2003 at yahoo.com
Mon May 23 17:23:22 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel Metheringham" <Nigel.Metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Devices


> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:18 +0100, A Thomson wrote:
>> > You need an appropriate permissions script in /etc/udev/permissions.d/
>
>> And how would i go about that?
>>
>> I guess i would need a bash script with the chmod and chown commands in
>> it,and i would need to make it executable but i've never written a script
>> before.
>
> No - if you look in that directory you should see current permissions
> scriptlets, which should give you the idea.
>
> Create a new file with appropriate style of name (number hyphen
> something dot permissions) - I use
>  /etc/udev/permissions.d/20-dvb.permissions
>
> Into that put a phrase to match the devices, and set the permissions, I
> have the following for the dvb device
>  dvb/adapter[0-3]*/*:root:mythtv:0666
>
> Don't edit an existing file unless you know what you are doing -
> automatic updates on those files later might cause problems.
>
> Nigel.

That worked like a charm.
I made the group video but kept everything else the same and it worked after 
a re-boot.

Thanks for that.
A Thomson
> -- 
> [ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
> [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
>
>
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