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* Alan W. Irwin <irwin@...> [2004-01-23 13:46]:

> As soon as cvs is back up, we also need to update the script we use for
> mailing out cvs changes to the plplot-cvs list. Rafael, can you be
> responsible for that change?  On the above page they give notice that they
> have changed their mail host name, and I presume that is the reason
> plplot-cvs quit working yesterday.

I do not quite understand the problem.  The CVSROOT/loginfo script calls
dncvspipe, which sends mail to the plplot-cvs@... address.
Why would the change of the mail host name have any influence here?  If you
send a message to the address above, it will go through (as with the test
message I just sent). Why does it not work from CVSROOT/loginfo?

I am puzzled.

-- 
Rafael

* Rafael Laboissiere <rlaboiss@...> [2004-01-23 23:50]:

> I do not quite understand the problem.  The CVSROOT/loginfo script calls
> dncvspipe, which sends mail to the plplot-cvs@... address.
> Why would the change of the mail host name have any influence here?  If you
> send a message to the address above, it will go through (as with the test
> message I just sent). Why does it not work from CVSROOT/loginfo?
> 
> I am puzzled.

We should perhaps starting using the recommended syncmail script instead of
our own dncvspipe (see
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=772&group_id=1#top)

I will look into this probably post-release, unless someone else steps
forward. 
 
-- 
Rafael

On 2004-01-23 23:56+0100 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Rafael Laboissiere <rlaboiss@...> [2004-01-23 23:50]:
>
> > I do not quite understand the problem.  The CVSROOT/loginfo script calls
> > dncvspipe, which sends mail to the plplot-cvs@... address.
> > Why would the change of the mail host name have any influence here?  If you
> > send a message to the address above, it will go through (as with the test
> > message I just sent). Why does it not work from CVSROOT/loginfo?

The script indirectly needs access to an SMTP server to transport the mail.
You can specify that (say, localhost) for most mailers like pine, mutt,
etc., but dncvspipe uses the old-fashioned (but ubiquitous) mail command as
a mailer. I have looked carefully at the mail manpage on my system, and
there appears to be no way to specify the SMTP server that is being used. So
my guess is the SMTP server address was hard-coded inside the mail code, and
it doesn't correspond exactly to localhost as is now apparently required.
The alternative explanation is they may have removed the mail command
altogether (my impression is it is incredibly old and unmaintained so it may
be full of security holes).  Anyhow, in either case dncvspipe would no
longer work on the cvs.sourceforge.net system.

>
> We should perhaps starting using the recommended syncmail script instead of
> our own dncvspipe (see
> http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=772&group_id=1#top)

That is certainly worth a try.

Alan
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* Alan W. Irwin <irwin@...> [2004-01-23 17:01]:

> > We should perhaps starting using the recommended syncmail script instead of
> > our own dncvspipe (see
> > http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=772&group_id=1#top)
> 
> That is certainly worth a try.

I did the trivial change (dncvspipe -> syncmail) in CVSROOT/loginfo and the
automatic notification is working again.  You probably noticed my dummy
commit some minutes ago.

-- 
Rafael

On 2004-01-24 18:37+0100 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> I did the trivial change (dncvspipe -> syncmail) in CVSROOT/loginfo and the
> automatic notification is working again.  You probably noticed my dummy
> commit some minutes ago.

Yes I did.  Glad you got this to work again.

And obviously cvs is working again as well, but very slowly.  I started a
cvs update 10 minutes ago, and it is still struggling through it.

Alan

__________________________
Alan W. Irwin
email: irwin@...
phone: 250-727-2902

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org), the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net), the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net), and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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Linux-powered Science
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* Alan W. Irwin <irwin@...> [2004-01-24 09:51]:

> And obviously cvs is working again as well, but very slowly.  I started a
> cvs update 10 minutes ago, and it is still struggling through it.

Same thing here, it's horrible.  Since we are updating in parallel, I am
getting several messages like this:

cvs update: [18:07:48] waiting for airwin's lock in /cvsroot/plplot/plplot/lib
cvs update: [18:08:19] obtained lock in /cvsroot/plplot/plplot/lib

-- 
Rafael

Rafael Laboissiere writes:
 > * Alan W. Irwin <irwin@...> [2004-01-23 17:01]:
 > 
 > > > We should perhaps starting using the recommended syncmail script instead of
 > > > our own dncvspipe (see
 > > > http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=772&group_id=1#top)
 > > 
 > > That is certainly worth a try.
 > 
 > I did the trivial change (dncvspipe -> syncmail) in CVSROOT/loginfo and the
 > automatic notification is working again.  You probably noticed my dummy
 > commit some minutes ago.

Yes, it was:

Subject: [Plplot-cvs] plplot bootstrap.sh,1.27,1.28 
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:30:27 -0800 
 
Update of /cvsroot/plplot/plplot 
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv5436 
 
Modified Files: 
        bootstrap.sh  
Log Message: 
Dummy commit 
 
So, what happens when you commit multiple files in the same dir?
Do they all get put in the subject line?

Personally, I liked the previous behavior (listing the directory)
better, since cvs always sends out one message per directory anyway.

-- 
Maurice LeBrun

* Maurice LeBrun <mjl@...> [2004-01-24 15:27]:

> Yes, it was:
> 
> Subject: [Plplot-cvs] plplot bootstrap.sh,1.27,1.28 
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:30:27 -0800 
>  
> Update of /cvsroot/plplot/plplot 
> In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv5436 
>  
> Modified Files: 
>         bootstrap.sh  
> Log Message: 
> Dummy commit 
>  
> So, what happens when you commit multiple files in the same dir?
> Do they all get put in the subject line?
> 
> Personally, I liked the previous behavior (listing the directory)
> better, since cvs always sends out one message per directory anyway.

I did just a dummy commit to check this:

From: rlaboiss@...
Subject: [Plplot-cvs] plplot acinclude.m4,1.13,1.14 bootstrap.sh,1.28,1.29

Update of /cvsroot/plplot/plplot
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv32264

Modified Files:
        acinclude.m4 bootstrap.sh
Log Message:
Dummy commit, please ignore

I prefer the inclusion of file names in the Subject line, but this is a
matter of taste, since people may dislike long lines.  I am afraid we cannot
easily change this behavior, unless we use a customized version of syncmail
installed in our CVSROOT.

On the other hands, I just noticed that cvs diffs are included in the commit
notifications.  This is extremely handy.  I added option -u to the syncmail
call in CVSROOT/loginfo, such that we have now unified diff (shorter and
human-friendlier).
 
-- 
Rafael