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

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> 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 suspect this might have been on the MythTV site but I don't really
remember now.

>
>> 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.

Sounds familiar. Glad you got it all running.

cheers,
Mark