On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2009-09-23, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Grant Edwards >><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 2009-09-23, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.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