[mythtv-users] Ownership problem on recordings.

[Larry Finger]

john blue wrote:
> 
> psaux shows this as the only reference to mythbackend.
> root      7195  0.3  5.7 599612 117576 ?       Ssl  Jun28   4:05 /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile /v
> 
>>From that I gather that root has ownersip of the process and that may be why I have the problem with 
> ownership.
> 
> However, as mentioned I am using SuSE 11.1 and standard mythtv packages for SuSE from the packman 
> repositories.  If I look at the /usr/bin directory for mythtv files there are several mythtv files all owned 
> by root with group root.  
> 
> mythtv at mythtv:/usr/bin> ls -l myth*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  311552 2009-02-23 03:03 mytharchivehelper
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1142408 2009-05-20 08:11 mythbackend
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  107680 2009-02-23 03:03 mythbrowser
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  533016 2009-05-20 08:11 mythcommflag
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  303760 2009-05-20 08:11 mythfilldatabase
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1484872 2009-05-20 08:11 mythfrontend
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   31656 2009-05-20 08:11 mythjobqueue
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  233288 2009-05-20 08:11 mythlcdserver
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   85520 2009-05-20 08:11 mythreplex
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   89264 2009-05-20 08:11 mythshutdown
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  333112 2009-05-20 08:11 mythtranscode
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   44200 2009-05-20 08:11 mythtv
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   23352 2009-05-20 08:11 mythtvosd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      12 2009-06-25 15:22 mythtvsetup -> mythtv-setup
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  164048 2009-05-20 08:11 mythtv-setup
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  148656 2009-05-20 08:11 mythwelcome
> 
> Would I need to change the permissions here to resolbe the problem? and if I did wouldn't the permissions be 
> overwritten with any software upgrade? 

My openSUSE 11.1 system has exactly the same situation as yours. The
BE runs as root. The recordings are owned by root:root, but they can
be deleted from the FE.

Do you have a problem? I only have a single FE/BE, but do not have any
trouble.