Comment 1 for bug 1578387

I have been looking into this more, and it looks like a umask issue. By adding debugging output to /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon, I see that the umask is fine until the startDaemon call, at which point it's set to 066. Presumably it is this that is creating the files with the permissions they have.

startDaemon called Proc::Daemon::Init, and looking at documentation for that, apparently it is normal behaviour to set the umask so.

What I don't know is exactly why this has changed between 12.04 and 14.04. I can't see much changes is the mythexport package between the two, but it may have been a change in Perl or Ubuntu.

If desired, I can show a list of all packages (including version numbers) that changed on my system between 12.04 and 14.04. And I have a backup of my 12.04 system I could roll back to if anyone wants to troubleshoot.