Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] SF and Email from web server.

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>:

>
> Quoting NS <nig...@gm...>:
>
>> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>> Quoting Ingo Schaefer <in...@in...>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello Earnie,
>>>> Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 09:04 -0400 schrieb Earnie Boyd:
>>>>
>>>>> We can no longer send email from the web server.  This sucks badly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>> According to the alexandria wiki Mail should be spooled to the project
>>>> shell server with the help of the project database and sent from there
>>>> via cron.
>>>>
>>>> This could be a somewhat simple solution using the sf.net provided
>>>> ressources.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, that is what we used to do.  But there is no
>>> shell.sourceforge.net any longer.  That is what happened with the
>>> latest round of SF changes.
>>>
>>> Earnie
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's still there, you just access it differently.  Here's the help text
>> that explains it:
>>
>> If you would like to create a shell, use ssh to login using a USER,PROJECT
>> username with the "create" command.  If you tell ssh to allocate a tty
>> (e.g. using -t), an interactive shell will be opened when the create is
>> done.  Otherwise, the create command will exit when the shell becomes
>> ready for use.  An example create that enters the shell when ready:
>>
>>    ssh -t USER,PR...@sh... create
>>
>
> But that still doesn't help the mail issue.  I have a work around that
> I need to do some code modification for to make it work for us.
>

Hmm...  This wasn't available until a couple of days ago.  Some 
interesting points are that without -t the create process ends once the 
virtual shell service is created.  You can then do ssh command 
execution as before but only for four hours.  Then you need to create 
the shell service again.  The virtual shell service is locked to the 
user account and you can no longer go peaking from the shell at other 
projects.  There still isn't a cron process.  I need to test mail 
service; I know you can't do it from the web service but you might be 
able to do it from the shell service.

Earnie