[ATrpms-devel] mythtv-backend-0.21-155_trunk_r13045.fc6.at

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:09:31PM -0700, Joseph Kotran wrote:
> Dear ATRpms Development Team,
> 
> The init script provided with mythtv-backend-0.21-155_trunk_r13045.fc6.at
> includes this statement:
> 
> # Does not work on Red Hat, do to to missing audio/video groups.
> #cd $MYTHTV_HOME && daemon --user mythtv $binary $OPTIONS
> 
> Please know that I am able to have the mythbackend process launch via init
> using this:
> 
> su -c "/usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log" mythtv

You can launch it, but then the mythtv user and the desktop user will
be fighting for the resources and is the desktop user occupies alsa or
is just playing with the capture card the mythtv user will not be able
to make recordings. There are workarounds by using console.perms or
similar mechanisms, though.

There were also other issues with rnning mythtv as non-root which had
to do with real time capabilities in the kernel.

> % diff mythbackend newmythbackend 
> 31c31,33
> <   cd $MYTHTV_HOME && daemon $binary $OPTIONS
> ---
> >   #cd $MYTHTV_HOME && daemon $binary $OPTIONS
> >   cd $MYTHTV_HOME
> >   su -c "/usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log" mythtv
> 
> Thank you for your time and consideration.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Joe Kotran
> 
> P.S. Your "bleeding" release of 0.21 (April 7) seems to work well.  I
> installed it to add support for channel scanning when using the HDHomeRun TV
> tuner.  Your stable release supports the HDHomeRun, but the channel scanning
> did not work.

Yes, Jarod Wilson did some backporting lately to get 0.20 up to speed
for that matter, but the 0.20 cut I used still had some bug that
wouldn't allow the scanning to happen. So the next 0.20 package set
will have that fixed.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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