[mythtv-users] Problem with "Enable Realtime Priorirty Threads"

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 14:04:41 +0000, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 19/03/2008, Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> >  I've never sorted this problem and I've got a bit of time on my hands at
> >  the moment so I should look into it now. If I try to "Enable Realtime
> >  Priorirty Threads", the frontend says:
> >
> >  2008-03-18 20:43:43.013 Realtime priority would require SUID as root
> >
> >  Is there a simple solution to this? I'm using Mythbuntu 0.21 and use a
> >  couple of different users accounts use MythTV
> 
> I take it you haven't tried to search for the answer?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid

I think this won't help for mythfrontend, as it drops privileges early
in main():

setuid(getuid());

Regards,
Tino