[mythtv-users] firewire Channel Change Permission problems

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Wed Dec 4 14:30:02 UTC 2013


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Mark Pennock <markitman2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know about permissions on device files. This is what I see from what
> I think is the firewire devices.
>
> mark at Myth4:/dev$ ls -l fw*
> crw-------  1 root root  251, 0 Dec  1 23:08 fw0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 251, 1 Dec  3 19:31 fw1

When you say "I cannot get my 6200ch executable or my channel change
script to work without a sudo in front of command.", are you using an
account which is a member of the video group?

Eric


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