RE: loginfo log messages

[Ludvig Borgne]

Daniel,

Why do you need the & at the end of the loginfo line?
I did a simple test with

DEFAULT cat

and it works, i.e. the log message is displayed in the shell
where i do the commit, but

DEFAULT cat&

does not work, i.e. nothing is displayed in the shell.

/Ludde

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Ludvig Borgne,  Prover Technology AB,  address@hidden,  www.prover.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grisinger, Daniel (MAN-Golden) [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 00:35
> To: 'Larry Jones'
> Cc: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: RE: loginfo log messages
> 
> 
> Larry Jones <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > "Grisinger, Daniel (MAN-Golden)" writes:
> > > 
> > > Larry Jones <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > I think you've confused info-cvs with a perl list.
> > > 
> > > Well, no, I haven't.  The perl is correct, it simply reads 
> > from STDIN. The
> > > problem is unquestionably a cvs issue.  But since that's 
> > the attitude here's
> > > the
> > > shell code that also doesn't work.
> > 
> > Are you *sure* the perl is correct?
> 
> Yes.  Running it outside of CVS results in STDIN being echoed 
> back out.
> 
> > Have you checked to see if your script is executing at all?
> 
> It is.  The script mails a summary of changes out to the 
> other developers on
> my team.  This summary is complete except for the logmsg 
> field.  I'm getting
> the rest of the params (repository directory, file changed, 
> old rev, new
> rev)
> passed through in ARGV.  There just isn't anything on STDIN 
> to read from
> (which
> is where I expected to find the data, based on the CVS manual).
> 
> > What is the exact content of your $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/loginfo file?
> 
> DEFAULT 
> (/home/cvsuser/cvs-scripts/cvs-mail-checkin-notifications %{sVv} >>
> /home/cvsuser/cvslogs/commit-mailer.log 2>&1)&
> 
> I've also tried:
> 
> DEFAULT (sleep 3; 
> /home/cvsuser/cvs-scripts/cvs-mail-checkin-notifications
> %{sVv} >> /home/cvsuser/cvslogs/commit-mailer.log 2>&1)&
> 
> I removed the call to sleep(1), because I thought that maybe it was
> eating STDIN before my script could get at it.  The current 
> script sleeps
> for a bit to give CVS time to clear locks (since it calls cvs 
> internally).
> 
> There are no other entries in the loginfo file besides the 
> DEFAULT.  (If
> my company's dumb windows mail client wrapped that line, be 
> assured that
> it actually appears as a single line in the loginfo file.)
> 
> > What is the exact command you used for the commit and what 
> was the exact
> output?
> 
> $ cvs commit -m 'test commit' scrubber.c
> Checking in scrubber.c;
> /home/cvsuser/repository/is_devel/src/scrubsys/scrubber.c,v 
> <-- scrubber.c
> new revision: 1.17; previous revision: 1.16
> done
> $
> 
> Nothing is coming on STDIN, which is what I expected.  I 
> could always call
> cvs log from within the script and parse the latest log 
> message out of it,
> but the manual suggests that I should be seeing the log 
> message coming in
> on my standard input. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> daniel
> 
> 
>