[mythtv-users] HDhomewrun

[Daryl McDonald]

daryl at trieli:/usr/local/bin$ sudo rm /tmp/hdhr_discovery.log
[sudo] password for daryl:
daryl at trieli:/usr/local/bin$ sudo ./hdhomerun_check.py
daryl at trieli:/usr/local/bin$

Does this now indicate a successful run of the script?

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 7:54 PM Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Friday, April 14, 2023, 1:37:29 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Hoi Daryl,
>
> > Friday, April 14, 2023, 1:20:22 AM, you wrote:
>
> >> sometimes they are available - sometimes not. When I run the check
> >> script from the terminal I see this:
> >> aryl at trieli:/usr/local/bin$ sudo ./hdhomerun_check.py
> >> [sudo] password for daryl:
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/usr/local/bin/./hdhomerun_check.py", line 64, in <module>
> >>     main()
> >>   File "/usr/local/bin/./hdhomerun_check.py", line 31, in main
> >>     logging.basicConfig(filename='/tmp/hdhr_discovery.log',
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python3.10/logging/__init__.py", line 2040, in
> basicConfig
> >>     h = FileHandler(filename, mode,
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python3.10/logging/__init__.py", line 1169, in __init__
> >>     StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python3.10/logging/__init__.py", line 1201, in _open
> >>     return open_func(self.baseFilename, self.mode,
> >> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/hdhr_discovery.log'
> >> daryl at trieli:/usr/local/bin$
>
>
>
> >> How do I correct this?     TIA  Daryl
>
> > My guess is that you have run this script as different users. It looks
> > like a bug in the script that does not anticipate this.
> > It can not write to the file: '/tmp/hdhr_discovery.log', so remove it,
> > if needed with sudo and try the script again.
>
> > If this indeed is the problem, the script should set world permissions
> > to the file to rw.
>
> If the script reuses the file you could fix it by manually setting the
> word permissions on that file to rw. If it deletes and recreates the
> file the script needs fixing.
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
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>
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