On Monday 09 October 2006 15:50, Matthias Fechner wrote:

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Hi,

I have the problem that VDR deletes directories in my /video0 or /video1 ... which not belongs to VDR.

I use vdrconvert to convert my VDR recordings to DVDs so I have a directory /video1/filme which VDR deletes and vdrconvert breaks.

Is it possible to deny the delete of this directory?

Eeeek! Also makes permissions a bit more complex than just changing ownership to the non-vdr user.

Can you put the directory elsewhere and use a symbolic link in /video, and check it exists before running vdrconvert?

Nope, vdr even kills symlinked directories. This can cause quie a fuzz if you link system directories. I even have this when symlinking /cdrom [/dev/cdrom] for access to vdr files on CDROM. Also here it's extremely advisable to have a dummy file at the mount point location to have vdr keeping his fingers off the mount point.

Just a suggestion: a sensible means of access rights would be a good think for VDR to do. It's very critical to setup a system using externally stored vdr files when VDR kills every empty directory mercyless.

regards Peter