[mythtv-users] Problem with storage directory on 2nd HDD

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Tue Sep 16 16:35:20 UTC 2014


On 16/09/14 11:16 AM, Jonno wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com
> <mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hoi Hika,
>
>     You can try to login as user mythtv (you might have to first set a
>     password): su mythtv. Then try to go to the directory and try to
>     create a file: touch test
>
> Thanks Hoi, I will try that. I suspect it will work as the backend no
> longer complains about not being able to create a test file (user =
> mythtv) whereas the frontend (user = jonno) can't create recording files.

You might want to try adding both users mythtv and jonno to the group 
video, and 'chown -R video:video recordings`

Geoff




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