Both the dropbox and its contents are owned by the same user running rdimport. Permissions of the undeleted file are -rwxr--r--
I just typed rm /var/dropbox/* as the same user, and the file went away. Rob On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Geoff Barkman wrote: > It might be easier to set up the dropbox in rdadmin .... tick the box > saying "Delete source files on import". Sometimes rdimport may have > problems deleting a file if it is owned by someone else. Eg Rivendell > runs as user "bob" but the files get copied via a samba or nfs share > as user "guest". > You might have to change ownership of the directory (dropbox) to 666 > either by right clicking on the folder in nautilus or using the > command line > > Many Thanks > Geoff > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Rob Landry <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have rdimport running in dropbox mode under Rivendell 2.0.2. Theexact >> command is: >> >> rdimport --drop-box SPORTS "/var/dropbox/*.mp3" >> >> The purpose of this drop box is for operators to be able to import >> recorded high school football games (typically 2.5 hours long). They just >> dropped one in this afternoon, and it imported successfully after about 15 >> minutes, but my understanding is the original file in the drop box is >> supposed to be deleted afterwards. That hasn't happened. >> >> Do files uploaded to dropboxes get deleted after the import is complete? >> or did I misunderstand the documentation? >> >> >> Rob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
