Tvheadend

Let me see if I can reproduce this. But it looks like this relates to the XDG changes. afaik the code will try its best to find a reasonable path, but failing everything else, it'll use the CWD. Since before the XGD changes, the path was hardcoded, it could be that the `-f` flag 'skips' something somewhere.

Ignore "-c" configuration patch if also included

@ Oliver Schinagl
bundle script have some issues mentioned here #6274 with can be connected.

saen acro wrote:

@ Oliver Schinagl
bundle script have some issues mentioned here #6274 with can be connected.

Lol, no. A missing close or different sleep call is not the issue here.

I think we'll have to close this issue with 'not-a-bug'.

When you launch tvheadend with the `-f` flag, it gets run as a daemon in the background. To do so, tvheadend drops permissions/changes permissiosn to UID 2 (on my alpine container anyway) which resolves to the user `daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin`.

From here on the issue is clear as day. The 'daemon' user's homedir is set to '/sbin' and thus, we'll use '/sbin' to store our files. It's defiantly not nice but works as expected.

Now, I don't think it's a bad idea, to require `--config` when `-f` is set. I don't think it's a good idea to hardcode the path to X in the case of `-f`, because what is the correct path in such a case?

Thinking a little more about this, the logic to determine the config dir would need to be improved. Right now, it assumes it can use /var/lib/tvheadend if it matches the currently running user.

E.g. if the owner of /var/lib/tvheadend is root, but we launch with -f (which we launch with user daemon) there will be a missmatch.

So sean, can you list /var/lib/tvheadend ownership, and see if it works if you? Seems to work here.

As for UX, I wonder what makes more sense. "Normally" a distro maintainer would install TVHeadend and create the proper folders and proper startup files.

How did you install tvheadend from the deb? Does the deb do it properly?

Im not using docker pseudo virtualization,
Im installed Alpin Linux on bear metal x86 embedded board,
this save around 1,5Gb blob, and have full functional OS
under 150mb + developer tools needed to compile tvheadend.

Folder /var/lib/tvheadend not exist.

Bundle idea is to have aio binary.
And logically configuration location
to be in user /witch run it/ home folder
or specified location,
or in same directory with binary.

Well you are running Tvheadend as user "daemon", and home directory is /sbin for that user. It works exactly how you want it to work.

Flole Systems wrote:

Well you are running Tvheadend as user "daemon", and home directory is /sbin for that user. It works exactly how you want it to work.

Stop flooding and start reading!
Starting with "-f -c /some/location" ignore "-c" option.
No other error except Aborted
So not work how I wont it to work. Verstehen?

If we accept that home path is /sbin
and start it with "-C",
in browser show Error 403.

Flole Systems wrote:

You are "flooding" and not reading and I am super close to banning you for your continued useless comments, attacks and unacceptable behavior.

After 4 years your learning curve starts here.

I'll just ignore this totally inappropriate rude behavior ...

But I also think you are doing something wrong.

```
mkdir -p /tmp/hts
/src # /tvheadend/usr/local/bin/tvheadend -f -l /tmp/tvheadend.log -c /tmp/hts
2023-08-13 08:52:42.226 [ INFO]:config: Using configuration from '/tmp/hts'
```

Without the `-c` flag it does what I wrote before, it resolves the `daemon` user home, which is `/sbin`.

Flole, close this issue, as I can't find anything wrong here.

I've created https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/pull/1561 to make this more clear however to the user.