<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Daryl McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com" target="_blank">darylangela@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Doug Lytle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:support@drdos.info" target="_blank">support@drdos.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div>>> OK I found my recordings at "/var/lib/mythtv/recordings", but I'm still nor sure how to go in as user. <br></div><div><br></div></div><div>ls -l in your recordings directory will show you a listing of files, along with what user owns them. Probably mythtv.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>If you're using an Ubuntu based system, you'd then do:<br></div><div><br></div><div>sudo mythtv<br></div><div><br></div><div>And then type in your password.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Doug<br></div></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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I guess I'm still doing something wrong:<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings$ sudo mythtv</div><div>[sudo] password for daryl: </div><div>sudo: mythtv: command not found</div>
<div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings$ sudo mythtv touch 3197_20130616200000.mpg</div><div>sudo: mythtv: command not found</div><div>daryl@daryl-A780L3C:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings$ </div><div><br></div><div>
I've probably misunderstood, Daryl</div></div><br></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's actually:<br><br></div><div>su mythtv<br></div><div><br>That changes the user to the mythtv user. Then, run your commands.<br><br></div><div>sudo is when you want to run a command as a privileged user. "sudo mythtv" means to run the command "mythtv" with escalated privileges, which is why it didn't work (there is no executable called mythtv in your path).<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps,<br></div><div>Jerry<br></div></div></div></div>