Re: cvsimport in cron

["Barra Mac Mathúna" <barrymac@gmail.com>]

Thanks Martin,

Nice to know how to log the progress! Good tip to try normal cvs over
ssh, which works fine.

I wish it was possible to get more verbose output from the git
cvsimport command. The connection refused error seems to me to be
misleading. I would expect at least some output from cvsps but it
doesn't even get to the first step.

So if everything works at the command line, what significant things
can be different in a cron job?

I also downgraded to the stable version according to gentoo, so I'm on
using 1.5.3.7 now, same result. Unfortunately I might have to give up
soon and ask developers to update their own repositories, as it's
burning up time.

Will post of course if I find the solution.

Thanks,
Barry.


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:00 AM, barrymac <barrymac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apologies if this is a standard mistake, I'm not very experienced with cron.
>> I'm trying to run cvsimport commands from within a cron job but it always
>> returns:
>
> I've done this plenty, so it's known to work. Not sure why it's
> failing in your case.
>
>> I use ssh keys and have tested that they work  by using scp within the
>> script. The script goes as follows:
>
> That's a good start. Have you tried a cvs-over-ssh cvs operation from cron?
>
>> It would also be nice if someone could tell me also how to log the output.
>
> Just wrap the commandline in
>
>  ( $cmd 2>&1) > /tmp/cvsimport.log
>
> HTH, and tell us what the problem was - so the next one to bump into
> it find the answer in the list ;-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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