[gentoo-user] Re: Hints on setting up mythweb?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-09-23, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Grant Edwards
><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On 2009-09-23, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
><SNIP>
>>>
>>> And it failed. ??Mythbackend doesn't seem to know where to put
>>> the recorded files...
>>
>> Bitten again by permissions. ??I forgot to set the ownership of
>> the /myth directory to be the mythtv user. ??I'm happily
>> recording after making sure that mythbackend could write to the
>> directory where I told it to store recordings.
>>
>> I still need to hook up the second tuner in my HDHomerun. ??I
>> swear there must be at least a half-dozen 2-way RF splitters in
>> the house, but can I _find_ one when I need one....
>
> I have my permissions on the video storage directory set to
> mythtv:video IIRC.

That's what I decided on.

> That was straight out of the Gentoo Wiki stuff somewhere.

Yup -- except that it says to use mythtv:mythtv, instead of
mythtv:video. I missed that step somehow.

> I got burned by it this week when my USB storage drive failed
> and I had to replace it with an old 1394 drive.

The error message you see in the backend log is truely cryptic.
Instead of saying it didn't have permission to create file
/myth/tv/<whatever>.mpg, you get some bizarre message about a
very long, apparently unrelated URL not being local or not be
found or something like that.

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