Jon Burgess wrote: > On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 09:11 +0200, Johannes Schoeller wrote: >> Reinhard Walter Buchner wrote: >>> Hi Udo, >>> >>> >>>> Reinhard Walter Buchner wrote: >>>>> I have the same problem (still using an older version of VDR, tho). >>>>> VDR does delete the contents of the directory, but it doesn't >>>>> always delete the primary directory below 'video'. In your example >>>>> you (or in my case me ;o)) still have >>>>> >>>>> /video/nano/Die_Welt_von_morgen/ >>>>> >>>>> (being empty) left over. >>> >>>> If it happens next time, check: >>>> - Owning user and group of the folder >>>> - File permissions >>>> - User account that runs VDR >>> >>>> Most times when I notice that folder deleting didn't work, it was >>>> because the files/folders accidentally had wrong permissions or owners. >>> I run VDR as root (the only account on the machine) and VDR >>> created the folders, so this shouldn't be a problem, but I'll have >>> a look at the folder's owners & permissions. >> it's SO good to hear that i'm not alone with that 'problem'. in the >> #vdrportal irc noone had that problem. >> >> i have video[0123] nfs-mounted. vdr runs as root. vdr creates all these >> directories and this is what syslog says: >> > > NFS brings in another whole level of permissions checks at the NFS > Server. Often NFS has "root-squash" enabled which means that a root user > on a client does NOT get equivalent root privileges when accessing files > on the server. Try logging in as root on the client and try to "rmdir > folder" on the same NFS folder and see what happens. > > > The correct way to fix this is to not run the server as root. > If however you insist on bypassing these checks, /etc/exports will need > to have a line like this on the server: > > /video0 *(rw,no_root_squash,sync) > > Then get the NFS server to reload config, remount the dir on the client > and restart VDR too. > > Jon hi jon my /etc/exports already looks like that: /video0 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash,sync) and removing dirs from the command-line also works w/o problems. i will try plain-vanilla-vdr and report back. regards hannes
