[mythtv-users] Recordings "cold not be deleted"

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/03/2008 04:55 PM, Craig Fry wrote:
> Over the weekend I added new drives to my mythbox and moved recordings from
> my lvm to the new drives.  My default recording group has 4 directories in
> it, each on a different drive and I removed the lvm entirely.  Now I cannot
> delete recordings from the front end or mythweb.  It won't even auto
> expire.  An example message:
>
> File /video/1062_20081025080000.mpg for chanid 1062 at Sat Oct 25 08:00:00
> 2008 could not be deleted.
>
> Permissions:
>
> ls -al /video/1062_20081025080000.mpg
>
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 mythtv mythtv 1255804928 2008-10-25 08:25
> /video/1062_20081025080000.mpg
>
> Database shows the storage group as Default.  Mythbackend is running under
> mythtv as it always has been.
>
> Any ideas?

Deleting a file on *nix does /not/ require write permission to the
file.  It requires write permission to the /directory/ containing the file.

Mike