[mythtv-users] 0.26-fixes: HDHR no longer recording?

[Bill Meek]

On 03/08/2013 06:19 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
...
> currently both are set to log to the same location, however only the
> "syslog" seems to appear. This would make me think the answer to 1 is
> no and that syslog "trumps" the logpath output.

I suspect a permission problem. --syslog (likely via rsyslog, see:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Simple_rsyslog_Configuration ) may set the
owner/permissions on /var/log/mythtv to something that mythtv can't
write to.

So, do: ls -ld /var/log/mythtv. Can user mythtv write to that directory?

I'm sticking with my previous suggestion. Make a directory named:
/var/log/mythtv-logpath:

     sudo install -d -m0775 -o mythtv -g mythtv /var/log/mythtv-logpath

And then in /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf, use:

     --logpath /var/log/mythtv-logpath

If it were my system, I'd remove the: --syslog local7 for the duration
of this test. Then when you're all done, you can revert to the default
logging for your distribution (and remove all of the files in the new
directory.)

-- 
Bill