[mythtv-users] permisions for /directory

[Damian Surr]

William Munson wrote:
> Damian Surr wrote:
>   
>> sudo chown -hR username /stuff
>> sudo chown -hR mythtv /stuff/media/mythtv
>> sudo chmod -R 772 /stuff
>>
>> In the end, maybe I only needed that last line.
>> All seems well now with that problme now, except now my frontend can't 
>> connect to the back end! Why the hell should anything have changed 
>> there? It was fine last night.
>>
>> Any ideas? I don't think I've changed anything that could cause that, 
>> but I'm getting the "Can't connect to back end. Are you sure it's 
>> running? Are you sure the IP address is correct" .. the answer to both 
>> of those is yes.
>>
>> Damn, the was working so well ...
>>
>>     
> Its your permissions. You blocked access to the backend which runs under 
> root. Try chmod -R 777 /stuff
>   
Phew, thanks for that William, emergency over! Myth back up and running 
in it's new born state and ready for polishing.

Cheers
Damian