[mythtv-users] Nuvexport / mythtranscode fails because fifo directory isn't there

[stan]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 05:02:17PM +0000, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> stan wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:47:26PM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote:
> >
> >>>Keep in mind that nuvexport creates the fifodir
> >>>in the CURRENT directory, not the DESTINATION
> >>>directory.  So if you are running nuvexport from
> >>>say /usr/bin and you don't have write permission,
> >>>it will fail.
> >>
> >>Ok, this has been changed..  the fifodir will now be created in /tmp -
> >>it guarantees that it's writable, and that it won't hang around too long
> >>if it gets lost. 
> >>
> >
> >That might not be such a good idea. Not all system have large /t,p space.
> >Might I sugest you honor the TMPDIR environment variable?
> 
> how big is a fifo?
> 

Ah :-( I guess I should read the whole thread :-(

Sorry.

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