[CLUE-Admin] CVS loginfo and MailMan

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:09:06 -0700
David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:

> I looked around.  You asked for this:
> 
>  > site_devel /usr/local/cvs-1.10/contrib/log.pl \
>  > %s -f CVSROOT/commitlog -m clue-dev at clue.denver.co.us

Yeah, I should know better than to just copy from the Coriolis book. ;-) I
guess plagiarism isn't the shortest path to success in this case.

> log.pl isn't executable.  Don't know if that matters.

Oh, I suspect it does. I hope to know more later, since it seems the next
step for me is to set up a repository here at home, and try things out
until it works.

> The #! line in log.pl says "#! xPERL_PATHx" which might not work
> correctly.

I admire your talent for understatement.

> Looking at log.pl, it looks like you need to single quote the %s 
> argument.  The file list has to be one word for the script to work 
> (that's in the usage line if you look closely).
> 
> Finally, I'm not sure that CVSROOT/commitlog works.  The examples in the
> manual show absolute paths, so at least $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitlog. 
> (There isn't any commitlog file so log.pl must be dying before line
> 102.)
> 
> Maybe that helps.  I don't seem to remember the root password so I can't
> play with things.

Yeah, it does. I'll have to mess with it for a while, I guess. I still
wish there were some obvious location to look for error messages.

jed

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