<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ross.jemima@gmail.com">ross.jemima@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You are correct in the first instance that the backend<br>
and frontend are not running as the same user. Backend is running as<br>
mythtv user while frontend is running as another. This user belongs to<br>
the mythtv group and so should have read access to the recordings folder<br>
(new recordings seem to have read access for all anyway).<br>
<br>
What I do have is symlinks. The default location for the recordings in<br>
myth is /var/lib/mythtv/recordings but I have that location symlinked to<br>
another location. The ownership and group are both set to mythtv user<br>
with read/write/execute permissions for owner and group. I didn't think<br>
that there was any problem with this set up as the backend is currently<br>
recording programs to this location happily and I can watch any existing<br>
recording from the same location.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Why such a complicated setup?<br><br>It seems like the frontend is trying to access the LiveTV ringbuffer in
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings, rather than wherever else you've got it symlinked to. Can you verify that the user the frontend runs as can read files from /var/lib/mythtv/recordings?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>