[mythtv-users] Ownership problem on recordings.
Larry Finger
Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Mon Jun 29 01:42:44 UTC 2009
john blue wrote:
>
> 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?
My openSUSE 11.1 system has exactly the same situation as yours. The
BE runs as root. The recordings are owned by root:root, but they can
be deleted from the FE.
Do you have a problem? I only have a single FE/BE, but do not have any
trouble.
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