Discovered that plexmediaserver will fall back to using the transcode directory if it gets a Permission Denied error when writing to /tmp/pms-*/ at service startup:
To take advantage of this, the plex user needs to have write access to /tmp removed. This can be accomplished with:
setfacl -m u:plex:r /tmp/
With /tmp unable to be written to by the plex user, the default config for logging filename needs to be somewhere the plex user has write access (this uses /opt/plex/tmp/prt.log, matching the shared transcode directory in the wiki).
I have this working with Ubuntu 18.04 x64 master/slaves and PMS 1.13.9.5439-7303bc002 with EAE transcodes being executed on any host (including remote slaves).
Discovered that plexmediaserver will fall back to using the transcode directory if it gets a
Permission Deniederror when writing to/tmp/pms-*/at service startup:To take advantage of this, the
plexuser needs to have write access to/tmpremoved. This can be accomplished with:With
/tmpunable to be written to by theplexuser, the default config for logging filename needs to be somewhere theplexuser has write access (this uses/opt/plex/tmp/prt.log, matching the shared transcode directory in the wiki).I have this working with Ubuntu 18.04 x64 master/slaves and PMS
1.13.9.5439-7303bc002with EAE transcodes being executed on any host (including remote slaves).