> -----Original Message----- > From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nka...@gmail.com] > Sent: 07 March 2011 12:57 > To: Ole Pinto > Cc: bimininavels; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Using svn with cron? > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Ole Pinto <olepi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As you are scheduling your job to run with your user, I > don't think it > > is a permissions related problem. But maybe the env. vars > do matter, > > including any needed to get to your stored password. > > > > Once you get to stderr you'll probably have a clue about > what is happening. > > If not, from your perl script print the environment vars, and > > reproduce that in an interactive shell. If it doesn't work, > there you > > have it. Now you would only need to compare this to a > "normal" shell, > > and make small modifications until you make it work. > > > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 20:45, bimininavels <c...@qgenuity.com> wrote: > >> > >> I've been struggling all morning with what should be a very simple > >> problem. > >> > >> I would like to commit and update a svn repository daily > using cron. > >> I've encapsulated my svn calls into a perl script, which runs the > >> following > >> > >> ---- > >> #!/usr/bin/perl > >> > >> print "To run svn commit\n"; > >> $thetime=time; > >> > >> system "cd ~/docs; /usr/bin/svn commit --message '$thetime' \n"; > >> system "cd ~/docs; /usr/bin/svn info \n"; > > Hello. Is that "$thetime" getting parsed? > > Look, for 3 lines of code, you don't need perl. > > #!/bin/sh > cd ~/docs || exit 1 > /usr/bin/svn commit --message "`date`" > /usr/bin/svn info > > Done. Note the exit if the "cd" fails, and set whatever > "date" format you want.
That isn't valid Bourne shell; tilde expansion is a C shell feature that has found its way into Bash. Either invoke Bash explicitly or use $HOME where you have the tilde. Tony. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit > http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ >
