[mythtv-users] Saving recordings as root
J. Donavan Stanley
jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Sat May 15 15:37:50 EDT 2004
Michael Denver wrote:
>When I record a tv show it creates the file with root being the owner. So I
>have to chown the file in order to watch it. Any ideas why they are not
>being created with my mythtv user being the owner?
>
>
You backend is running as root and saving the files as such (which is
fairly normal). You shouldn't need to chown the files at all to play
them since the files *should* look something like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 893208512 May 5 18:00
2028_20040505173000_20040505180000.nuv
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