[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup: trailing "/" while setting up Storage Groups

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 06:43:22 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Sebastian
Singer<sebastian.singer at kesslar.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to reset my Storage Groups in mythtv-setup. But every time I
> type the path without a closing "/" mythtv sets a trailing "/" at the
> end by itself. So no changes can be made because mythtv complains for
> not knowing the specified directory. For example my recordings lie in
> "/multimedia/mythtv/recordings" (without "/"). MythTV changes this to
> "/multimedia/mythtv/recordings/" (with "/"). After that Mythtv
> complains: Cannot write file /multimedia/mythtv/recordings//.test
> (notice the double // in path name !)
>
> So how do I get rid of this trailing "/"?

generally linux doesn't complain about multiple /'s so thats not
likely to be the problem. Looks more like the myth backend user
doesn't have permission to write to /multimedia/mythtv/recordings.
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