Is using Perls built-in mailer a solution? Stuart
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Denniston Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 8:37 AM To: Carl Brewer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: generating logs to mail out from a repository,not checked out code? Carl Brewer wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to get an email summary of changes to an entire > repository. I have a repository : /home/scvs/repository, > which is accessed both from a chrooted pserver, and ssh > logins. We were using the usual entry in CVSROOT/loginfo > to generate emails when commits are made, but hacking > a mailer into our chroot directory is not something I'd > like to do unless there's no alternative. I've just recently > set up the chroot'ed pserver, and this is the bit I need > to set so it'll send emails when something happens. > > I had a look at cvs2cl.pl, which can generate summary > logs by time for a checked out copy, but I want to be able > to run something on the repository server itself to send out mails > when commits are made, or send a summary every N minutes. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? It seems a little heavy > to run a cronjob to check out everything in the repository on the server > every 10 mins and then run cvs -l over it, but is that > my only way to do this short of hacking at my chroot dir to > make my MTA behave? > How about having a directory that the cron job user can access, also having loginfo just touch a file loginfo.out, and do if [ $CHROOT_LOCATION/loginfo.out -nt Changelog ] then cvs update -Pd cvs2cl.pl -l "-d \"2004-08-09 < 2004-10-09\"" fi results in 1) not disturbing your chroot jail. 2) only using a little disk space. 3) only checking when there has been a checkin. or a simpler thing might be to have loginfo gen some output as before but append the output in a file, and a cron check as follows if [ $CHROOT_LOCATION/loginfo.out -nt localcopy ] then mv $CHROOT_LOCATION/loginfo.out $worklocation/localcopy touch $CHROOT_LOCATION/loginfo.out #make sure we are later touch $worklocation/localcopy mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < localcopy fi > This is for a redhat gnu/linux box. > > thanks for any suggestions, > > Carl -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
