[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase autorun config file location error

[R. G. Newbury]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
<snip>
> 
> There are a couple of reasons that make mythbackend run as non-root an
> issue on some or all dists. Other than the obvious permission issues
> of devices root has different real time scheduling capabilities in the
> kernel. There are some kernel patches to allow selected non-root users
> to make use of that (most notably for jack), but there are AFAIK still
> not in mainstream kernel. E.g. one needs to both replace the vendor
> kernel and the vendor's permission policies.
> 
> So the hurdle to run as non-root is quite high, and in some cases the
> user would not notice that some issues (like bad latency) would come
> from running as non-root.
> 
Thanks for the explanation. That just leaves the flip-side question of 
doing a cleanup of a crashed process, while running as a user. Sudo does 
not seem to be a complete answer, but I may be doing something wrong...


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