On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:00 AM, barrymac <barrymac@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html