[mythtv-users] LIRCD will load as root.. But not as mythtv?

[R. G. Newbury]

Michael Jones wrote:
> I've already tried changing the permissions on the /var/lock/subsys
> directory and that doesn't solve it.. It also causes problems for other
> areas of the system.
> 
> LIRCD doesn't actually have a log location..so nothing to change there.
> 
]
The group and owner of your lirc file is probably the problem.
Your /etc/udev/rules,d folder should have a file 10-lirc.rules with the 
line:

KERNEL="lirc[0-9]* SYMLINK="lirc"  GROUP="mythtv" MODE+"0666"

That line creates the symlink, does a chgrp and an chmod all at once.

Geoff