Re: [RDD] Video formats in Rivendell [WAS: Rivendell-dev Digest, Vol 70, Issue 2]

2019-02-05 Thread Fred Gleason
On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 15:56 -0600, jessejones2752 wrote: > As a novice at Rivendell, I am simply curious. What is the real > advantage of running these -video- formats in audio automation? One doesn't 'run' them at all, as the supported internal library audio formats for Rivendell are limited to P

[RDD] Thinking about 'RN'

2019-02-05 Thread Fred Gleason
The 'Run Shell Command' ['RN'] RML has been part of Rivendell from the early days of the project (it first appeared in v0.9.17, released on 1/10/2005). Its use at first glance appears straightforward: run the specified command-line invocation. However, in actual practice, it has proven to be one of

Re: [RDD] Thinking about 'RN'

2019-02-05 Thread Lorne Tyndale
Fred, I admit that I have used the ability to run a remote script at times and have found it useful, I would be disappointed to see that functionality vanish. On the other hand I can understand the challenges of the current system. What about the possibility of adding another configuration optio

Re: [RDD] Thinking about 'RN'

2019-02-05 Thread Fred Gleason
On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 08:58 -0700, Lorne Tyndale wrote: > I admit that I have used the ability to run a remote script at times > and > have found it useful, I would be disappointed to see that > functionality > vanish. One could still do that with ssh(1). On the local system, you'd do: RN

Re: [RDD] Thinking about 'RN'

2019-02-05 Thread drew Roberts
Fred, an alternate possibility... On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 10:34 AM Fred Gleason wrote: > The 'Run Shell Command' ['RN'] RML has been part of Rivendell from the > snip > In order to avoid > privilege escalation attacks, ripcd(8) actually executes the command as > the user/group specified in the

Re: [RDD] Thinking about 'RN'

2019-02-05 Thread Fred Gleason
On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 13:22 -0500, drew Roberts wrote: > Make an easy way for testing how things run when rivendell gets to > running it. > > Could we use a little script (or would we need something more?) that > does an su to 'AudioOwner' (and group?) and sets up the environment > to be what it i