[mythtv-users] Systemd File For MythTV on Fedora Questions

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:24 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
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> Fedora 16 on the mythbox. Please explain a little more. I wasted a fair bit
> of time trying to get ExecStartPre to actually create /var/run/mythtv after
> a reboot. And failing for inexplicable reasons was frustrating. I've never
> seen a mention of tmpfiles.d before.

Create a (new) file in /etc/tmpfiles.d/ called something like
mythbackend.conf with the contents something like
  d /var/run/mythtv 0755 mythtv mythtv -
It should create a 'd'irectory /var/run/mythtv with
permissions 0755 owned by mythtv:mythtv at
startup.  Adjust as needed for your config.

man tmpfiles.d for assistance.

Note that if you are a packager, you want to put
the files in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ (the /etc/ directory
is for local overrides).