[mythtv-users] Mythexport output files wrong permissions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/06/2016 06:52 AM, John Veness wrote:
> I have just upgraded my combined BE/FE from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 (I 
> realise I am behind the times!) Before the change, files output from 
> mythexport had permissions 666 (-rw-rw-rw-). Files output since the 
> upgrade have permissions 600 (-rw-------). This means that the apache 
> process that serves the output files, via an RSS feed, cannot read the 
> files and so they cannot be downloaded.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem, and knew how 
> to solve it?
>
> By adding debugging messages to mythexport-daemon, as far as I can 
> see, the umask changes after startDaemon, which calls 
> Proc::Daemon::Init. According to the documentation for the latter, 
> changing the umask is normal behaviour. But as I say, I never had this 
> problem with 12.04.
>

Just a guess, but I'd expect that the umask in the environment which is 
used to start mythexport (or used to start the process that's starting 
mythexport) has changed.

Mike