[mythtv-users] Configuring MythTV users

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> Just wondering what people typically do when installing from source on
> their boxes. I've installed svn trunk on my desktop pc, which is also
> used for general development/mail etc. Do people setup a separate mythtv
> user in that instance?
>
> I've setup a separate "mythtv" user and configured the various
> directories (recording, videos, music etc) to live under
> /home/mythtv/share, plus any mythtv related cron jobs run under that
> user. It seems tidier to me that way.

     I build from source and yes I have created a separate mythtv
user for all of my boxes. Although I had my own "media server"
scheme going long before MythTV was around. I have a user and a
group named media that owns all of my media files. mythtv belongs
to this group and the recordings directory is group writable.

     So, all of my stuff is in /home/media but it's essentially
the same idea as what you've done.

     /home/media/Music
     /home/media/Images
     /home/media/Icons
     /home/media/Lectures
     /home/media/Video
     /home/media/DVD
     /home/media/Sounds (old wav files and such)
     /home/media/Books
     /home/media/AudioBooks

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