[mythtv-users] Stepmania + MythTV = brilliant, but--

[Steve Hodge]

On 5/17/06, Douglas Wagner <douglasw0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so now I have to ask, is there a suggestion in here TO run mythtv as
> root so that something gets correct priority?
>
> I don't remember anything in any installation documents I came across
> mentioning SUID root, but I could I guess be wrong.

MythTV can be run suid root so that it can give some of it's threads
realtime priority. Mythfrontend will print a message about this, IIRC,
and it's mentioned in the manual:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html.

Steve