Greetings Fred,
Thanks for your input and time.

RMLSend touch does indeed work, file is created.
our scripts do not
another simple command such as RN echo "something" > file! does not.

So where would you suggest going from here?
As here works.

Tim Camp
WZEW-FM


On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 8:57 AM Fred Gleason <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ok, let’s try a fully worked-out example of a very ‘minimalist’ example,
> and see if we can scale up from there.
>
> The default ‘/etc/rd.conf’ shipped with Rivendell 3.4.1 has an
> ‘[Identity]’ section that looks like this:
>
> *** snip snip ***
> [Identity]
> AudioOwner=rivendell
> AudioGroup=rivendell
>
> PypadOwner=pypad
> PypadGroup=pypad
>
> RnRmlOwner=rivendell
> RnRmlGroup=rivendell
> *** snip snip ***
>
> That’s designed to replicate a 2.x setup (Principle of Least
> Astonishment), but for this exercise let’s change the user for RN so it’s
> same one that’s running the base Rivendell modules:
>
> *** snip snip ***
> [Identity]
> AudioOwner=rivendell
> AudioGroup=rivendell
>
> PypadOwner=pypad
> PypadGroup=pypad
>
> RnRmlOwner=rd
> RnRmlGroup=rd
> *** snip snip ***
>
> We’ve changed ‘rd.conf’, so restart the ‘rivendell’ service to pick up the
> changes. As ‘root’:
>
> systemctl restart rivendell
>
> Now, start up a ‘Terminal’, and do:
>
> ls -l /home/rd/here
>
> You should get: 'ls: cannot access /home/rd/here: No such file or
> directory’.
>
> Now, fire up ‘RMLSend’, from the Applications->Rivendell->Utilities menu.
> In the ‘Sent To:’ field enter ‘localhost’, and in the ‘Command:’ field
> enter ‘RN touch /home/rd/here!’. Touch the ‘Send Command’ button.
>
> Now, go back to the terminal and repeat:
>
> ls -l /home/rd/here
>
> Now, you should get back something like: '-rw-r--r--. 1 rd rd 0 Oct 24
> 09:26 /home/rd/here’.
>
> You’ve just created an empty file called ‘here’, in the ‘/home/rd’
> directory. A very basic starting point, but it will let us establish that
> the fundamental system in Rivendell is working. Once we have that, we can
> start working to determine why your specific scripts won’t run.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
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