[mythtv-users] RE: Xbox "Shutdown" feature broken

A JM vbtalent at gmail.com
Sun May 29 01:04:26 UTC 2005


The user running Myth on the Xbox by default is not 'root' so a
permission issue makes sense.

How can I make that change or verify that it needs to be changed? Can
that be done from the command line?

AJM,


On 5/28/05, John Stubbs <john_stubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >I'm running Xebian on my Xbox frontend running Myth .18 and when
> >exiting the front end the option exists to shutdown the Xbox but that
> >feature doesn't work for me.
> >
> >Is there a fix for that feature or a permission setting that needs to
> >be changed?
> 
> It's a permission problem- make sure whatever user you run myth as (probably
> 'live') can shutdown the machine from the command line- I think myth uses
> the 'halt' command by default, so that needs to work.
> 
> You could use sudo to allow it to work, or, more insecure is just "chmod +s
> /sbin/halt" or something to that effect (as root).
> 
> John Stubbs
> 
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