Re: cvsimport in cron

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: May 26, 2008, 23:13 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90805261613v4ad72ddcxe6ee78fa0b54f89e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <17476529.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:00 AM, barrymac <barrymac@gmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies if this is a standard mistake, I'm not very experienced with cron.
> I'm trying to run cvsimport commands from within a cron job but it always
> returns:

I've done this plenty, so it's known to work. Not sure why it's failing in your case.

> I use ssh keys and have tested that they work  by using scp within the
> script. The script goes as follows:

That's a good start. Have you tried a cvs-over-ssh cvs operation from cron?

> It would also be nice if someone could tell me also how to log the output.

Just wrap the commandline in

  ( $cmd 2>&1) > /tmp/cvsimport.log

HTH, and tell us what the problem was - so the next one to bump into it find the answer in the list ;-)

cheers,

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