[ATrpms-users] Mythtv 0.21-177 from 175: easy upgrade on Centos with improvement seen.

[Ben Caldwell]

What is the reason for changing mythbackend to run as user instead of root
anyway? It sounds like this will cause a lot of headaches....

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:14 AM, john bray <john at johnbray.name> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 22:10 +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > Hi again
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >  177 introduced this new issue of the mythbackend not writing into the
> > >  default log file.
> >
> > Ben, my apologies, you were right. The issue did happen because
> > mythbackend is now started as user mythtv and the log file was owned
> > by root.
> >
> > Once the permissions were fixed that issue disappeared.
> >
> > Now, the problem is when not running as root, mythbackend can not
> > access the DVB interface. Need to add udev rules so it the permissions
> > will automatically be changed.
>
> actually, i think it's more than just udev.  the console perms affect a
> bunch of devices when someone logs in.  the numbering in
> the /etc/console.perms.d directory is the opposite of the udev
> directory.  i.e. you have to choose a HIGHER number than the defaults in
> order to override it. (that sucks, doesn't it).
>
> i attached the file from console.perms.d that i've kludged up for
> several years now as an example of one that works.  it's not pretty.
> fair warning.
>
> john
> --
> cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
>
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