[root@localhost ~]# ls -adl /usr/local/media<br>drwxr-xr-x+ 8 root mythtv 96 Jul 5 21:27 /usr/local/media<br><br>[root@localhost ~]# ls -adl /usr/local/media/tv<br>drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root mythtv 8192 Jul 23 17:24 /usr/local/media/tv
<br><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>--a--<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 07/23/2006 06:29 PM, A Desai wrote:<br>> On 7/22/06, Michael T. Dean <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">
mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> On 07/21/06 16:30, A Desai wrote:<br>>>> I need some help with my MythTV recordings. Right now what happens<br>>>> is that every new recording is recorded with a permission of 600,
<br>>>> where *root* is the owner and *mythtv* is the group.<br>>>><br>>>> This happened after I was playing around with the security settings<br>>>> of /usr/local/media on my Windows box. This is what happened:
<br>>>><br>>>> I have my all my Mythtv contents under /usr/local/media<br>>>> (/usr/local/media/tv, /usr/local/media/videos,<br>>>> /usr/local/media/music....etc). I have this /usr/local/media shared
<br>>>> as my M: drive on my Windows machine. The other day I was playing<br>>>> around with the "security" of this mapped drive on my windows box<br>>>> and I saw that there were two "users" there: Everyone and Root.
<br>>>> However, none of the rights under either of those users were checked<br>>>> off. So I checked them off. However, doing this made me unable to<br>>>> watch any recordings, so I tried to uncheck it back. This time I saw
<br>>>> that there were one more user added there (can't remember now, but<br>>>> something CREATED...). Also, when I tried to uncheck it, it asked me<br>>>> if I want sub-folders to inheret the permissions, etc. Anyway,
<br>>>> nothing worked so I went to my mythtv and did a recursive chmod 755<br>>>> as well as did chgrp mythtv /usr/local/media.<br>>>><br>>>> But this only works for the recordings I have so far. Any new
<br>>>> recording gets a permissions of 600, so it shows up as a recording,<br>>>> there is a pic in the preview pane, but when I click on it, it just<br>>>> sits there. My backend runs as root, frontend as mythtv. So every
<br>>>> evening when I go home from work, I have to do chmod -r 755<br>>>> /usr/local/media.<br>>> ls -ald /usr/local/media<br>>><br>>> gives?<br>> When I run ls -ald /usr/local/media/tv/*, this is what I get:
<br>><br>> -rw------- 1 root root 83882592 Jul 23 17:25<br>> /usr/local/media/tv/2192_20060723172400.mpg<br><br>Did you see a * on my command? I need info about the directory, not the<br>files in it.<br><br>
> The other surprising thing I just noticed is that my old recordings,<br>> which I make it chmod -R 755, if I try to go and watch them, I can do<br>> so. However, once I start watching it, their permissions now change to
<br>> permission of 666!<br><br>Sounds like the problem is that Windows is messing with your files,<br>then. If that's the case, I can't help you (I don't do Windows).<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________
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