<div>Thanks William. <br>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">William</b> <<a href="mailto:wmunson@rochester.rr.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
wmunson@rochester.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><br>
Your permissions on /video are read,write for root only. <br>
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I'm confused. Aren't the permissons for the owner of dev/video0 rw.
Isn't mythtv the owner of /dev/video0? Shouldn't mythtv have rw
permissions?<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">$ ls -l /dev/video0<br>
crw------- 1 mythtv root 81, 0 Aug 3 08:15 /dev/video0<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_quote"></span>Mythtv did not lock the dir. </blockquote>
<div><br>I wonder how it got locked -- perhaps udev did. <br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">chmod 777 /video would have fixed the problem<br>too.<br>
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I gave 777 a try, and surprisingly, it didn't work. Even more
interesting, the permissions for the dev reset to 600 after reboot. I believe this
is also a function of udev.<br>
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I think it's time for me to learn more about udev.<br>
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