[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase failing after OS upgrade

[Mike Perkins]

On 06/01/2023 17:00, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 1/6/23 10:52, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 mythtv mythtv 4096 Jan  5 15:37 tmp
>> daryl at trieli:~$
>> should the temp file be drwxrwxr-x?
> 
> No, you were (correctly) running as user mythtv and it
> has r/w permission.
> 
> When you did this:
> 
>   daryl at trieli:~$ sudo chown -R mythtv:mythtv /home/daryl/.mythtv
> 
> You made the owner:group of *ALL* user daryl's directories/files
> mythtv:mythtv. You didn't want to do that (Mike's warning was
> spot on, as you were running as user mythtv.)
> 
> Hang on for a sec before making any more changes.
> 
My apologies to all. I "assumed" that $HOME would be pointing to the mythtv user's home directory.

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Mike Perkins