Re: pserver and commit mails

[Larry Jones]

Hroi Sigurdsson writes:
> 
> I'm currently using a script for sending out log messages with mail.
> See 
> http://dns4free.dk/cvs/CVSROOT/commitmail.pl?rev=1.5&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> It works fine when committing using :ext:, but how do I get the cvs
> usename when committing via :pserver:? (we want to avoid having to give
> out real unix accounts)

You need to pass $USER (the CVS internal variable, not the environment
variable) into the script from the loginfo file.  See the example in the
manual: <http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC169>.

-Larry Jones

He's just jealous because I accomplish so much more than he does. -- Calvin