My FC 4 +0.19 is :<br><br>
<blockquote>$ grep mythtv /etc/passwd<br>mythtv:x:500:500::/home/mythtv:/bin/bash<br><br>$ grep mythtv /etc/group<br>mythtv:x:500:<br><br>$ ls -l /dev/video0<br>crw------- 1 mythtv root 81, 0 Aug 3 08:15 /dev/video0<br>
</blockquote><br>I don't see that user mythtv should have any difficulties here, but I've discovered the problem:<br><br>/video
is a directory that is used in the administration of MythTV.
Coincidentally , I used /video in mythtv-setup as the location to store
videos. Appearently, Mythtv locks the /video directory (see below);
therefore non-root users were denied access to /video. <br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">$ ls -l /video <br>total 0<br>?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .<br>?--------- ? ? ? ? ? ..
<br>?--------- ? ? ? ? ? nfslockfile.lock<br>(Note: the above is displayed in flashing red and white). </blockquote>
<div> </div>
<div>I changed the where videos will be stores in mythtv-setup to
/recordings, and shazaam! the user mythtv can operate MythTV -- with
improved video quality I might add.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the help folks,<br>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:chris@cpr.homelinux.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">chris@cpr.homelinux.net</a></b> <<a href="mailto:chris@cpr.homelinux.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
chris@cpr.homelinux.net</a> > wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:51:16AM -0400, William wrote:<br>> I suspect that you did not give your myth user any group associations which
<br>> is why it cannot access the devices. I am at work right now and cannot see<br>> what groups my mythtv user belongs to. Hopefully someone else will post the<br>> info. I suppose you can look to see what groups root belongs to and use that
<br>> as a guideline.<br><br>On my Debian + 0.19 system:<br><br>$ grep mythtv /etc/passwd<br>mythtv:x:112:112::/home/mythtv:/bin/sh<br><br>$ grep mythtv /etc/group<br>audio:x:29:mythtv<br>video:x:44:mythtv<br>mythtv:x:112:
<br><br>$ ls -l /dev/video0<br>crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Jul 7 00:53 /dev/video0<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org </a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
</a><br></blockquote></div><br>