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Ant <delete> task not working

Ant <delete> task not working

Ant <delete> task not working

(OP)
Hi,
I can't figure out why this target isn't working.

CODE

    <target name="clear.oldcorefiles.nightly">
        <!-- Determine the earliest timestamp for removal as an offset from the
             current date and time -->
        <property name="clear.timestamp.pattern" value="MM/dd/yyyy" />
        <tstamp>
            <format
                property="oldcorefiles.timestamp"
                pattern="${clear.timestamp.pattern}"
                unit="day" offset="-14" />
        </tstamp>

        <!-- Delete old files -->
        <delete includeemptydirs="true">
            <fileset dir="/var/corefiles" includes="**/core.*">
                <date
                    datetime="${oldcorefiles.timestamp}" when="before"
                    pattern="${clear.timestamp.pattern}" checkdirs="true"
                />
            </fileset>
        </delete>
    </target>
It's giving this error, even though I've made all the core files owned by the user that the ant process is running as and I even made them 'chmod 777'...

CODE

/tmp/cleanup.xml:142: Unable to delete file /var/corefiles/core.15.days
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.handle(Delete.java:624)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.execute(Delete.java:602)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104)

RE: Ant <delete> task not working

(OP)
Doh!  Nevermind.
Even though the files were writable, it's the directory they're in that needs write permission to delete the files.

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