From: Martin Langhoff Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:13:34 GMT Subject: Re: cvsimport in cron Message-ID: <46a038f90805261613v4ad72ddcxe6ee78fa0b54f89e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17476529.post@talk.nabble.com> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:00 AM, barrymac 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, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff