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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jonno,

Thursday, September 18, 2014, 4:28:01 PM, you wrote:

> Never mind. I just changed the mount point to
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings and it's working ok. Curious what the problem was though.


> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I started mythfrontend as user = mythtv but still getting the
> same permission error in the backend log.



> I checked and both jonno and mythtv have video listed in their groups.




> What else can I look at?




> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi R.,
>  
>  Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 6:35:20 PM, you wrote:
>  
 >> 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
>  
>  No, adding them to video is Good, but the recordings should be owned
>  by user mythtv. Besides a user video probably doesn't exists.
>  Wether you use the group mythtv or video is in essence arbitrary. The
>  user running the backend and the frontend though should be member of
>  video to be able to properly access the capture and video devices.
>  
>  Tot mails,
>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>  
To start please don't toppost.

One of my remarks was wether there are sufficient rights on /media?
Does the user have either group rx or world rx rights.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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