Comments on: GoldenPod

By: PhatBob55

PhatBob55 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:10:23 +0000

Just started to use Goldenpod, I am having trouble trying to integrate it with cron.

my cron tab entry for goldenpod is :

04 3,11 * * * root goldenpod -f
(which is just really a test, as I was wanting it to run at 11:04 (and then again at 03:04)

the mail log for the entry stated that the download failed, and that Curl exited with return value 6. What does this mean? What am I doing wrong?

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:20:59 +0000

Thanks for responding so promptly! …and I’ve noted your request concerning where to go for help next time. I certainly appreciate your effort. :)

By: Zero_Dogg

Zero_Dogg — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:04:10 +0000

Please post support requests at https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?group=goldenpod

goldenpod.conf should be autogenerated by goldenpod and placed at ~/.goldenpod/goldenpod.conf

The default looks like this:

# GoldenPod configuration file
# Do NOT put podcast feed URLs in this file! Put them in podcasts.conf

# The directory the podcasts will be downloaded to
# This is only used if there is no ./podcasts.conf or ./bp.conf
# If one those are present WorkingDir will be ./
$WorkingDir = “/home/zerodogg/Podcasts”;

# The default verbosity, anything other than 0 means verbose
$DefaultVerbosity = “1″;

# Set this to a regular expression you want goldenpod to ignore when downloading
# or copying podcasts. –ignore-pattern overrides this and –rmold only obeys –ignore-pattern, not this configuration setting.
$IgnorePattern = “”;

# Set this to 1 if you want GoldenPod only to download audio feeds
$PodcastFilter = “0″;

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:49:36 +0000

I’m feeling REALLY foolish. I’ve read the man page over and over…goldenpod.conf should be self explanatory…

I’ve missed something, there is no sample in the tar ball and I haven’t found an example by googling it. I’m sorry to be so ignorant but could you please tell me what that file should look like? Thanks for your effort!

By: Zero_Dogg

Zero_Dogg — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:30:55 +0000

Remember, Windows doesn’t know what symlinks are so smb shares them as real files not symlinks.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:40:55 +0000

last line – shouldn’t be an asterisk on the end. (Last comment. I swear!). Thank God these things are modereated.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:29:08 +0000

Sorry – I’m hopelessly incompetent. The first command should be recursive rather than limited to a depth of 1 and the esecond command I had another typo in it (a stray asterisk). As corrected, the commands should read as follows:

#remove old golden pods
find “$PODCAST_DIR\Goldenpod” -regex .*mp3 -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm {} -f \;
#remove empty directories
find “$PODCAST_DIR\Goldenpod” -type d -exec rmdir –ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} * \;

I tested them and they work – failed to do that properly last time.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:04:30 +0000

Sorry, second line had a typo – it should read:

#remove empty directories
find “$PODCAST_DIR\Goldenpod” * -exec rmdir –ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} * \;

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:02:50 +0000

Wow – quick response. Ok but it is not showing as a symlink and in SAMBA windows seems to be counting it twice (maybe I’m wrong on that but it does look like it’s killing my drive). Anyway my solution to the old mp3′s is just to run the following as a part of a cron script like the following (removes mp3′s older than 3 days and deletes empty directories):
#remove old golden pods
find “$PODCAST_DIR\Goldenpod” -maxdepth 1 -regex .*mp3 -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm {} -f \;
#remove empty directories
find “$PODCAST_DIR\Goldenpod” find . * -exec rmdir –ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} * \;

By: Zero_Dogg

Zero_Dogg — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:44:54 +0000

It keeps only one copy, the second one is a symlink to the other one. The docs are available in manpage format. Join the IRC channel #goldenfiles on irc.freenode.net for live help or report bugs at http://goldenpod.nongnu.org/