[mythtv-users] MythArchive help, please

[Paul Harrison]

Bruce Ruona wrote:
> I encountered the same last time I tried MythArchive, unfortunately I 
> was running as ROOT at the time (I KNOW!!!)
>
> result was a completely unusable FC 3 installation ....oh well, I had 
> been putting off the upgrade to 5 anyways ...
>
> I've been leary of playing with it since  :)
>  
>
>     Basically, it tried to chmod my entire file system.
>
>     Since I told it to save the result in "/video/archive", why is it
>     trying to use root?
>

Ouch!! Apologies for that. It looks like a nasty bug has crept in 
somewhere. I know it was working fine because I used it to transfer 
several recording between my production box and my dev box a little 
while ago. Looks like the saveDirectory isn't being passed on to the 
script properly.

Paul H.