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! > > > |---------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | > | | Paravel Systems | > |---------------------------------------------------------------------| > | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | > | | > | -- Cicero | > |---------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > -- Tim Camp Director of Operations/Programming Dot Com Plus L.L.C. dba WZEW-FM WNSP-FM Mobile, Al.
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