[mythtv-users] Running as root

[Paul A Pick]

> The mythtv
> user does not have permissions to run 'service mythbackend
> restart', so how does the non-technical user get back to an
> operational state?

Give the user permission via sudo. Something like:

/etc/sudoers:
mythtv    ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/mythbackend

Then user mythtv can do "sudo /etc/init.d/mythbackend restart".

> I need something set up so that she can just push
> a button on the remote and it will re-cycle everything.

Run irexec and add something like this to your lircrc:

# Power Off/Exit
begin
prog = irexec
button = OFF
config = /script/to/re-cycle/everything
end

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