[mythtv-users] new recordings getting wrong permissions

[chris at cpr.homelinux.net]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 10:10:47AM -0500, A Desai wrote:
> Can anyone help me with this bizzare problem? Somehow, from the last few days,
> all my new recordings are getting 600 permissions instead of the 755 So now my
> user mythtv with runs the frontend, can't watch any recordings...tried doing
> chmod -R 755 but i have to keep doing this every day for every new
> recording....

How are you launching the Myth backend?

If you are running it as a user process then it's probably tripping 
over the umask value set in your shell's login script.

The preferred way to run Myth is as a daemon that is launched using 
the runlevel scripts (not rcS).