[mythtv-users] starting mythbackend at boot up issues

[Scott Beck]

On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 18:07, Vinton Coffman wrote:
> I wanted to run mythbackend as a user not root so I followed the 
> instructions to the letter.  The backend start up fails because 
> /dev/video0 is only r/w by root.  I change the permissions to "a+rw" 
> but I guess /dev/video* is created at boot time.  After rebooting the 
> permissions were root r/w only again.  Any suggestions?
> 

If you are running devfs this is created at startup. You can edit
/dev/devfsd.conf to change the permissions it creates it with. man
devfsd.conf. Other than that I wouldn't know.

Cheers,

Scott

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