Serviio

Greetings,

Not an advanced Linux user; however, I installed Serviio on Fedora 17 following the instructions of the Wiki. Everything runs great; however, I did not know that anything at the root level, with a default Fedora install, was on it's own 'system' partition and everything else is on another partition until I reached the cap of the system partition size (at a mere 20 gigs or so).

So, keeping Serviio installed in /opt/serviio, I want to be able to use a directory in my user's home folder as my media share point aka home/myuser/shared but, when I add this directory to Serviio it does not read anything. I tried chown -R serviio:serviio /home/myuser/shared as well as tried creating a symbolic link in /opt/serviio/ to the /home/myuser/shared and that too does nothing.

In the detailed log file it shows that it looks at the /home/myuser/shared directory and then puts the current time stamp on it and continues along.

What am I doing wrong here? I've been all over Google and the Forms and cannot find the answer exactly. I'm sure it is a Linux NOOB question or the answer is 'Why didn't you just do it like <insert easy answer here>' but I have fought with this long enough and figured I'd just ask the experts.

So all I want to do is allow Serviio to access a directory in my home folder for the library.

As a note, if I add one of the folders in /opt/serviio/shared back to the list of directories - it instantly pulls in the video files from just that directory.

Thank You All.

why don't you run serviio as the user (not as a root)

I thought I had to run it as root if I wanted it to start up when the machine first turns on? Or is there somewhere I can set it to run as my user?

Thanks.

On debian I use start-stop-daemon in my init.d script to run it under a different user, there must be the same for fedora.