Hello.
This option is used to remove the files after sending them. Otherwise the program would send all files periodically again and again. If you want to use dtnoutbox, install the not stripped down version of tar using "opkg install tar" and you'll be fine.
Kind regards, Johannes Morgenroth
Am 12.04.2013 20:26, schrieb Sebastian Schildt:
Hello,
the problem seems to be that dtnoutbox uses the --remove-files parameter of (GNU) Tar, see line 182 here http://git.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/?p=ibrdtn.git;a=blob;f=ibrdtn/tools/src/dtnoutbox...
As your OpenWRT installation uses the busybox tar (which only supports a subset of all tar options), it does not recognize that parameter.
At the moment I am on a MAC, and the BSD tar also does not support that option, so I can not say what exactly it does. You might want to try recompiling ibrdtn tools without that options. Maybe Johannes can add some information why that parameter is important and whether it could/should be removed or rpelaced in future releases. If you do not have a cross compile environment, from looking at the dtnoutbox source code it sems simple enough, that maybe it can be simulated writing your own small script that peridocially checks a folder, tars the contents and pipes that into dtnsend.
Sebastian