[mythtv-users] BE errors

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
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>> >> OK I found my recordings at "/var/lib/mythtv/recordings", but I'm
>> still nor sure how to go in as user.
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>> ls -l in your recordings directory will show you a listing of files,
>> along with what user owns them.  Probably mythtv.
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>> If you're using an Ubuntu based system, you'd then do:
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>> sudo mythtv
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>> And then type in your password.
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>> Doug
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>> I guess I'm still doing something wrong:
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>  daryl at daryl-A780L3C:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings$ sudo mythtv
> [sudo] password for daryl:
> sudo: mythtv: command not found
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings$ sudo mythtv touch
> 3197_20130616200000.mpg
> sudo: mythtv: command not found
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings$
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> I've probably misunderstood, Daryl
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It's actually:

su mythtv

That changes the user to the mythtv user.  Then, run your commands.

sudo is when you want to run a command as a privileged user.  "sudo mythtv"
means to run the command "mythtv" with escalated privileges, which is why
it didn't work (there is no executable called mythtv in your path).

Hope that helps,
Jerry
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