AW: [mythtv-users] Am I supposed to run setup/mythtv as root?

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 27 September 2003 05:12 pm, abo wrote:
> thanks for your response!
>
> the document says, that MythTV will overwrite any settings in
> /usr/local/share/mythtv
> but I'm not even able to start setup!
>
> however, i tried what you suggested, but it makes no difference.
> i had a look at the sources. the path to /usr/local/share/mythtv is
> hardcoded (the prefix /usr/local/ comes from the makefile) and a normal
> user has no permission to read this file.
>
> do you run mythtv as a normal user?

Why on earth do you have /usr/local/ as non world-readable?

Isaac