[mythtv-users] mythbackend.log is buffered?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/26/2015 01:04 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> This is what I've been given for Myth from the RPMFusion packages. I think the 'nocreate' option is what is not creating a new log file, unlike every other logfile on any of my Fedora systems. Not sure why it's there, except maybe it's expected that the restarting mythbackend will create it. Is that the logic? Is there a reason I shouldn't remove that option?

There's probably a nocreate option because the file system permissions 
of the log file must be set to something different from what would be 
set if created by the user running the syslogd application.  You just 
need to find out what a) file name/path is being used and b) permissions 
should be and then (when all MythTV applications are shut down) create 
the file yourself, set permissions, then start MythTV.  You could do it 
with a:

sudo touch /path/to/file
sudo chown user:group /path/to/file

or whatever works for you.

I'd guess the file system permissions should be the same as the 
still-existing MythTV-related log files (if you have any).

Mike