[mythtv-users] Permissions problem

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jul 22 17:12:14 UTC 2006


On 07/21/06 16:30, A Desai wrote:

> I need some help with my MythTV recordings. Right now what happens is 
> that every new recording is recorded with a permission of 600, where 
> *root* is the owner and *mythtv* is the group.
>  
> This happened after I was playing around with the security settings of 
> /usr/local/media on my Windows box. This is what happened:
>  
> I have my all my Mythtv contents under /usr/local/media 
> (/usr/local/media/tv, /usr/local/media/videos, 
> /usr/local/media/music....etc). I have this /usr/local/media shared as 
> my M: drive on my Windows machine. The other day I was playing around 
> with the "security" of this mapped drive on my windows box and I saw 
> that there were two "users" there: Everyone and Root. However, none of 
> the rights under either of those users were checked off. So I checked 
> them off. However, doing this made me unable to watch any recordings, 
> so I tried to uncheck it back. This time I saw that there were one 
> more user added there (can't remember now, but something CREATED...). 
> Also, when I tried to uncheck it, it asked me if I want sub-folders to 
> inheret the permissions, etc. Anyway, nothing worked so I went to my 
> mythtv and did a recursive chmod 755 as well as did chgrp mythtv 
> /usr/local/media.
>
> But this only works for the recordings I have so far. Any new 
> recording gets a permissions of 600, so it shows up as a recording, 
> there is a pic in the preview pane, but when I click on it, it just 
> sits there. My backend runs as root, frontend as mythtv. So every 
> evening when I go home from work, I have to do chmod -r 755 
> /usr/local/media.


ls -ald /usr/local/media

gives?

Mike


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