[CLUE-Admin] CVS loginfo and MailMan

[David Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
[...]
> Well, since it's opened with ">>", the file should get created if it
> doesn't exist, as long as the directory exists. But, whether the relative
> path works?

That's the trick.  If the relative path is different than the absolute, 
probably the CVSROOT dir doesn't exist and open will fail.

[...]
> One thing I'm finding curious though, is that in playing around here, I
> note that apparently, stdout/stderr come back to the client.

Is that with pserver?  If not then your connection to CLUE is different 
and may not support stdout to the client.

[...]
> Apparently, CVS handles quoting the %s string, so it isn't necessary in
> the loginfo incantation.

Indeed.  The manual says so but I missed it the first time.

> So, AFAICT, three things need to happen.
> 
>  + Make log.pl executable
>  + put /path/to/perl on the shebang line
>  + use $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitlog for log path (or whatever absolute path
> is appropriate)

Sounds good to me.

Dave