From: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:08:45 GMT
Subject: Re: cvsimport in cron
Message-ID: <g1gq3u$jb$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <ce7555260805270345x353cfc76ja3f7ec83a0ab5c61@mail.gmail.com>

Barra Mac Mathúna venit, vidit, dixit 27.05.2008 12:45:
> Thanks Martin,
> 
> Nice to know how to log the progress! Good tip to try normal cvs over
> ssh, which works fine.
> 
> I wish it was possible to get more verbose output from the git
> cvsimport command. The connection refused error seems to me to be
> misleading. I would expect at least some output from cvsps but it
> doesn't even get to the first step.
> 
> So if everything works at the command line, what significant things
> can be different in a cron job?

The environment! Put "env" in your cron job and compare the output to 
"env" on the command line. cvs or cvsps may be in $PATH on the command 
line but not in cron, or $PERL5LIB might be different.

Cheers,
Michael