[mythtv-users] Deleted recordings in mythweb

HP-mini blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz
Sat Jan 23 20:52:44 UTC 2016


On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 07:20 +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > AFAIU If you want the BE to manage your files correctly, all your
> > recordings should be owned by the backend user "mythtv"
> > "-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv ntp 2879944176 Jan 25"
> > Clearly this is not the case..
> 
> The way I read that ls output is that the file is owned by user mythtv
> and is in a group called ntp. So it meets the criteria, doesn't it? Or
> are you saying it must also be in a group called mythtv?
> 
That was badly done..
I believe that the recordings directories should be mythtv owner &
group, new recordings should be created that way by BE.

Ubuntu help suggests these permissions which purport to match the
original installation recordings path /var/lib/mythtv/ :
u=rwx,g=rwxs,o=rx

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Troubleshooting:Filesystem_Permissions
Need to check the mount point for any external partitions mounted into
the filesystem.




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