> The mythbackend init script available from atrpms.net does not setup > $HOME when the script is run at boot time. This means that $HOME > defaults to / which is why you end up with /.mythtv/ entries in the > filesystem. > > The updated scripts in MythTV SVN > (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/contrib/init_scripts) > have been updated to daemonise mythbackend with a user (defaults to > root, see below) so that the MythTV config entries are created/read at > init time for a real user. > > When starting mythbackend from a terminal, $HOME is already configured > and so mythbackend uses $HOME/.mythtv/. This is the reason you can end > up with separate MythTV configurations in /, /root/ and /home/mythtv/ > if you also run mythfrontend as the user 'mythtv' > > The reason the atrpms.net scripts do not use the daemonise 'user' > option is due to the lack of the audio and video groups on Fedora. > mythbackend requires access to the AV hardware when it starts and by > default on Fedora, only the root user has access to this. A user needs > to amend their installation's console permissions/udev scripts to > allow non-root users the access to the capture hardware they require > to allow mythbackend to run as another user. > > -- > Nick Thanks, I read the comment inside the mythbackend init script from the atrpms package about the user issue, but I could not locate any in depth explanation about it. Now I can google for the udev/console perms for myth and maybe find the needed information. Again thanks for the explanation. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org
