[mythtv-users] Cant start mythbackend

[Robert Kulagowski]

 > [root at myth etc]# Starting up as the master server.
 > 2004-02-08 11:27:54 mythbackend version: 0.14.20040123-1 www.mythtv.org
 > 2004-02-08 11:27:54 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
 > /video/recordings/ /nfslockfile.lock: No such file or directory
 > Unable to open lockfile!
 > Be sure that '/video/recordings/ ' exists and that both
 > the directory and that file are writeble by this user.
 >  [2]+  Exit 255                mythbackend -v

What's that space doing in there?  Have you tried to get rid of it in setup?