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

Sebastian Singer sebastian.singer at kesslar.de
Wed Sep 9 07:07:23 UTC 2009


I have done

# chown -R mythtv:video /multimedia/mythtv

and

# chmod -R 777 /multimedia/mythtv

No changes, problem remains.

Greets,
Sebastian


Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2009, 18:43 +1200 schrieb Nick Rout:
> 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.
> Check permissions.
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