[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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