Mythtv - Recordings ownership issue
It seems like a have a problem with permissions, but I seemed to have exhausted my limited knowledge in this area.
The problem is that all recordings by mythtv are being written to disk with root ownership and group (root:root)
I did have some problems when setting up NFS to share directories acroos the two computers , and it may relate to that.
Any advice would be appreciated. I have set out below the details of my setup and can provide further information if needed.
My Mythtv system comprises 2 computers:
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System 1. Combined Frontend/Backend (FE/BE) with 2 tuners which is intended to be the dedicated MythTV main media centre;
System 2. separate FE/BE on my general office system also with 2 tuners.
All systems use AMD x86_64 Athlon processors, on Gigabyte motherboards. All tuners are Leadtek Winfast
DVT-1000 T. *I am running SuSE 11.1 with mythtv installed from the binaries from the Packman repository,
present Myth version is 0.21.20080304-1 *I have not installed any mythtv from source.
I am using storage groups with 3 hard drives in system 1, and 2 drives in System 2 *I am using NFS to share
all drives, and had a few issues there. Both machines run NFS server to export the directories/drives, and
both machines run NFS-client to import the other machines directories. I used Yast2 to set these up.
The NFS server has the options * "rw,async,no_root_squash"
The NFS client uses the option *"defaults"
On both systems there is a user mythtv and group users.
The recording directories are in the same location on both systems
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/home/mythtv/store/disk1/default *(system 1)
/home/mythtv/store/disk2/default *(system 1)
/home/mythtv/store/disk3/default *(system 2)
/home/mythtv/store/disk4/default *(system 2)
/home/mythtv/store/disk5/default *(system 2)
there are also two live tv directories, one on each system
/home/mythtv/store/disk1/live/tv
/home/mythtv/store/disk3/livetv
I have been slowly resolving a number of issues but am totally lost on this one.
Live tv and tv recordings are being recorded as root : root as per the list here:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root * root *7930001304 2009-06-27 23:11 1005_20090627202900.mpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root * root * * * *7777 2009-06-28 10:42 1005_20090627202900.mpg.100x56.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root * root * * * 68377 2009-06-27 23:11 1005_20090627202900.mpg.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root * root *2853286340 2009-06-28 12:11 1022_20090628110000.mpg
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root * root * * * 64796 2009-06-28 12:11 1022_20090628110000.mpg.png
The directory & drive permissions are:
drwxrwxr-x 2 mythtv users 4096 2009-06-28 12:11 default
drwxrwxr-x 2 mythtv users 4096 2009-06-28 11:21 livetv
I have googled widely, looked at various forums, tried gossamer-threads, but I cannot find a clearcut answer
as to why the recordings are owned by root !
I have used chown and chmod to change what was recorded, but that is only an interim measure. I did read a
comment in one forum that seemed to suggest that the mythtv program files should be owned by user mythtv?
I would appreciate any advice to assist in resolving what is causing the recordings to be owned by root, and in particular whether it is an NFS problem. Any help on a solution to remedy this would be very much appreciated.
John
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