Diwaker Gupta wrote:

Apparently Forrest doesn't like the 2&> "target".  Output using the
regular > comes back successful.  Any ideas how to get around that?  I
am writing a cron to build forrest each night and email me the error
output if the build fails so I can check into it.  Since the 2&> makes
every build fail, it emails me everytime, even if the build really was
successful.  I was hoping it maybe gave a unique exit code but it gives
the same as a broken link, so I can't use that to filter this particular
error out.

You might want to consider using Forrestbot
(http://forrest.apache.org/tools/forrestbot.html) -- its flexible and
powerful, can work over SSH, FTP; use CVS/SVN and send you emails with
build results (http://forrest.apache.org/tools/forrestbot.html#notify.email)

Thanks for pointing me there Diwaker. I banged my head for a while because I was a bit confused, but then I stumbled upon the correct, magically aligned buildfile and it worked like a charm. I may have some mods to the documentation on that, for dummies like me. I will have to play with this some more tomorrow.

- Addi