[mythtv-users] mythbackend fails silenty

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Sep 14 19:33:33 UTC 2005


On 09/14/05 11:26, Graeme Wilford wrote:

>On 14/09/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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>
>>On 09/14/05 03:52, Graeme Wilford wrote:
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>>>Wiping out /.mythtv/mysql.txt and linking it back to
>>>~/root/.mythtv/mysql.txt did the trick for me.
>>>
>>Probably better off copying the file (or, even better, moving the file
>>and chown'ing it since root doesn't need it) from root's home directory
>>to mythtv's.  No normal users should have access to any files in root's
>>home (or the directory itself).  This won't affect Myth directly, but is
>>a much cleaner approach overall.
>>
>root does need it if you ever start mythbackend by hand as root, hence
>having one copy of mysql.txt in ~root/.mythtv/ with and the other one
>in /.mythtv/ symlinked back to it. You only ever need maintain one
>file then...
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>
OK.  If you're running user-level applications as root, letting users 
access root's home directory is a relatively small concern.  ;)

Mike


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