[mythtv-users] Not getting mythfilldatabase log
Raymond Wagner
raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Feb 2 03:35:47 UTC 2012
On 2/1/2012 22:23, Greg Grotsky wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com <mailto:mtdean at thirdcontact.com>> wrote:
>
> Does the user running mythbackend actually have write permissions
> on the
> /var/log directory and/or the /var/log/mythfilldatabase file? Usually
> unprivileged users would need to log to some other location (maybe a
> /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase file?).
>
> Mike
>
> Mike, how would one configure mythfilldatabase (or the backend) so
> that it always logs data to /var/log/mythtv? I just checked my
> mythbackend log file and I noticed that it's trying to create the file
> in /var/log (which it doesn't have permissions to).
Use the new --logpath rather than the old --logfile. Set the path to
somewhere the user that runs mythbackend has write access to.
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