[mythtv-users] Problem with storage directory on 2nd HDD

[Jonno]

Well I started mythfrontend as user = mythtv but still getting the same
permission error in the backend log.

I checked and both jonno and mythtv have video listed in their groups.

What else can I look at?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi R.,
>
> Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 6:35:20 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On 16/09/14 11:16 AM, Jonno wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hoi Hika,
> >>
> >>     You can try to login as user mythtv (you might have to first set a
> >>     password): su mythtv. Then try to go to the directory and try to
> >>     create a file: touch test
> >>
> >> Thanks Hoi, I will try that. I suspect it will work as the backend no
> >> longer complains about not being able to create a test file (user =
> >> mythtv) whereas the frontend (user = jonno) can't create recording
> files.
>
> > You might want to try adding both users mythtv and jonno to the group
> > video, and 'chown -R video:video recordings`
>
> > Geoff
>
> No, adding them to video is Good, but the recordings should be owned
> by user mythtv. Besides a user video probably doesn't exists.
> Wether you use the group mythtv or video is in essence arbitrary. The
> user running the backend and the frontend though should be member of
> video to be able to properly access the capture and video devices.
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
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>
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