Ant <delete> task not working

[cpjust]

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

	<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'...

/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)

 

[cpjust]

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