[mythtv-users] MythTV refuses to run SUID

[Doug Larrick]

Brady wrote:
> On 8/4/05, Louie Ilievski <loudawg at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>>I have been trying to get MythTV to run SUID for a couple days now but it
>>simply refuses to.  The log always shows
>>
>>2005-08-04 17:38:33.495 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
>>
>>I've always had this working in the past, and I've done nothing different with
>>this installation with the exception of having a slightly more up-to-date
>>version of MythTV, and probably some updated system packages.  I am running
>>SVN R6990 on Gentoo, with kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 (I just tried
>>2.6.12-gentoo-r4 because I thought that's what I had last time with this
>>machine, but I get the same results).

Try a different tack... kernel 2.6.12 and higher have the ability to
allow a user process to set realtime priority; no need for SUID root.
This works with MythTV's code w/o any changes.  See here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/131634

-Doug
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