[mythtv-users] permisions for /directory

[František Augusztin]

Damian Surr:
> I searched the net and found
> sudo chmod -R username /directory
>
> and ran
> sudo chmod -R myname /stuff
>
> which gave me the ability to create directorys in /stuff, so I created
> the 'media', 'mythtv' and 'recordings' directorys.
>
> Myth still couldn't access them, so I tried:
> sudo chmod -R mythtv /stuff
> but is still didn't work. tried:
> sudo chmod -R myname /stuff/media/mythtv
> but still didn't progress. What am I doing wrong?

Are you sure that you used chmod ? You know, chmod = change rights, chown = 
change owner.

Those commands you executed did exactly nothing. Try using chown instead.

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Frantisek Augusztin
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