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jssilva
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 Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:51 am Post subject: tvheadend ebuild problem, I think |
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Hello,
I've just arrived but I must say I started linux with gentoo  some 15 years ago. The learning curve was too steep and I quickly moved to the debian and arch family, until now.
So, I'm now trying to get back by replacing my tvheadend server, now debian-jessie, to gentoo.
And this is the problem: I can't make the internal xmltv grabber to work with the message:
| Code: | | cannot mkdir /dev/null/.xmltv: Not a directory at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.24.1/XMLTV/Config_file.pm line 24 |
and after some digging I came to the line 24 of Config_file.pm:
| Code: | $home = '.' if not defined $home;
my $conf_dir = "$home/.xmltv";
(-d $conf_dir) or mkdir($conf_dir, 0777)
or die "cannot mkdir $conf_dir: $!";
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This is due to the ebuild not specifying a home (/dev/null) for the user tvheadend which runs the application.
Every other distro, that I'm aware of, gives the user a home. I wonder if the decision of the devs here is related to security issues.
Nonetheless, xmltv is important for the application and I would like it to be able to run.
Can somebody help, please? Thank you. |
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jssilva
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I just made a home for tvheadend, moved everything from /etc to the new home, fixed some configs and it's now working.
But I still would like to know if this introduces a fragility on the security of the system.
Thank you. |
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fedeliallalinea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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This old bug is related at your problem?
If it's the case you can try to ask there.
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jssilva
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| fedeliallalinea wrote: | This old bug is related at your problem?
If it's the case you can try to ask there. |
Thank you for replying.
It is in fact slightly related. But, as you read there, his tvheadend has a /home and it doesn't work. Mine, as soon as I provided a /home works perfectly, and it doesn't even have to run xmltv as root, it runs it with his own uid.
So, it's basically a different thing. Mine just needs a modification of the ebuild or then you do it as I did, after instalation. |
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