Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-19 Thread Eric Junkermann
On Sat, March 19, 2011 3:01 pm, Ron Wilson wrote: > Prefixing a command > with a variable assignment causes the command shell to export that > variable for the duration of the command (Amazing how few people seem to know that :-) ) > (unless your version of cron > uses a limited version of the

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-19 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Eric wrote: > HOME is just an environment variable, so if you could find some way to set > it to some other location just before Fossil runs ... > > (a wrapper for fossil, perhaps) I had forgotten that. Depending on your version of cron, this command should work:

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-19 Thread Eric
On Sat, March 19, 2011 12:29 am, Nolan Darilek wrote: > Thanks. It isn't that I couldn't figure out a convoluted solution > involving multiple users, groups and permissions. I just thought that > Fossil could gracefully degrade if it couldn't write to the home > directory, not enabling some functi

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Martin Gagnon
Le 2011-03-18 à 20:29, Nolan Darilek a écrit : > Thanks. It isn't that I couldn't figure out a convoluted solution > involving multiple users, groups and permissions. I just thought that > Fossil could gracefully degrade if it couldn't write to the home > directory, not enabling some function

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Nolan Darilek
Thanks. It isn't that I couldn't figure out a convoluted solution involving multiple users, groups and permissions. I just thought that Fossil could gracefully degrade if it couldn't write to the home directory, not enabling some functionality. After all, just about any other VCS would let me c

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Ron Wilson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote: > These aren't pages. They're files from my source tree fed into a > translation tool written in PHP. It pretty much has to work as I've > described here. Failing all else, you could copy the files (exclusive of the _FOSSIL_ file) from a worki

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Nolan Darilek
On 03/18/2011 06:02 PM, Ron Wilson wrote: > Why not have those pages served by Fossil? If you do not want to > change the existing URLs, you can add a URL mapping rule to your > webserver config to feed into Fossil. > Because Fossil can't run PHP. > > If really need to serve tha pages out of what

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Ron Wilson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote: > I'm trying to integrate my Fossil project into a series of web apps. For > instance, I have an Android translation tool, and I want to set up a > cron job to update the sources every five minutes such that the web app > always has the latest

[fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Nolan Darilek
I'm trying to integrate my Fossil project into a series of web apps. For instance, I have an Android translation tool, and I want to set up a cron job to update the sources every five minutes such that the web app always has the latest version of strings available to it. However, whenever I try