On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:53:43PM -0500, John Pierce wrote: > > 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. > > > 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. You will also need root priviledges for some real time capabilities, or you will need a way to dispatch this to the mythtv user. If you manage to get it all working the ATrpms init scripts are eagerly waiting for your patch :) But beware: Over the years many capable people have been trying to cleanly sort this out, and finally resorted back to running the backend under root. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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