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Re: generating logs to mail out from a repository, not checked out code?
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Todd Denniston |
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Re: generating logs to mail out from a repository, not checked out code? |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:37:07 -0500 |
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 address@hidden < localcopy
fi
> This is for a redhat gnu/linux box.
>
> thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Carl
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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter