[mythtv-users] Ownership problem on recordings.

[john blue]

On Sun June 28 2009 22:33:32 Eloy Paris wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:32:00PM +1000, john blue wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Live tv and tv recordings are being recorded as root : root as per the
> > list here:
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root  7930001304 2009-06-27 23:11
> > 1005_20090627202900.mpg -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root        7777 2009-06-28
> > 10:42 1005_20090627202900.mpg.100x56.png -rw-rw-rw- 1 root   root      
> > 68377 2009-06-27 23:11 1005_20090627202900.mpg.png -rw-r--r-- 1 root  
> > root  2853286340 2009-06-28 12:11 1022_20090628110000.mpg -rw-rw-rw- 1
> > root   root       64796 2009-06-28 12:11 1022_20090628110000.mpg.png
> >
> > The directory & drive permissions are:
> >
> > drwxrwxr-x 2 mythtv users 4096 2009-06-28 12:11 default
> > drwxrwxr-x 2 mythtv users 4096 2009-06-28 11:21 livetv
> >
> >
> > I have googled widely, looked at various forums, tried
> > gossamer-threads, but I cannot find a clearcut answer as to why the
> > recordings are owned by root !
>
> What is the output from "ps aux"? Look specifically at the mythbackend
> process.
>
>
Hi Eloy,

Thanks for the reply.

psaux shows this as the only reference to mythbackend.
root      7195  0.3  5.7 599612 117576 ?       Ssl  Jun28   4:05 /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile /v

From that I gather that root has ownersip of the process and that may be why I have the problem with 
ownership.

However, as mentioned I am using SuSE 11.1 and standard mythtv packages for SuSE from the packman 
repositories.  If I look at the /usr/bin directory for mythtv files there are several mythtv files all owned 
by root with group root.  

mythtv at mythtv:/usr/bin> ls -l myth*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  311552 2009-02-23 03:03 mytharchivehelper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1142408 2009-05-20 08:11 mythbackend
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  107680 2009-02-23 03:03 mythbrowser
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  533016 2009-05-20 08:11 mythcommflag
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  303760 2009-05-20 08:11 mythfilldatabase
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1484872 2009-05-20 08:11 mythfrontend
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   31656 2009-05-20 08:11 mythjobqueue
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  233288 2009-05-20 08:11 mythlcdserver
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   85520 2009-05-20 08:11 mythreplex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   89264 2009-05-20 08:11 mythshutdown
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  333112 2009-05-20 08:11 mythtranscode
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   44200 2009-05-20 08:11 mythtv
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   23352 2009-05-20 08:11 mythtvosd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      12 2009-06-25 15:22 mythtvsetup -> mythtv-setup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  164048 2009-05-20 08:11 mythtv-setup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  148656 2009-05-20 08:11 mythwelcome

Would I need to change the permissions here to resolbe the problem? and if I did wouldn't the permissions be 
overwritten with any software upgrade? 

thanks,
John

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