[Cvsnt] Please help, NNTP post notification newsgroup setup

Russel Harvey RusselHarvey at hotmail.com
Wed May 29 19:22:25 BST 2002


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Thanks.  There are already too many junk mail in my inbox, it's hard to read
all email through.  I would rather watch newsgroup for this.

"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote in message
news:3cf31ce8.723067078 at news.cvsnt.org...
> On Mon, 27 May 2002 22:43:22 +0000 (UTC), "Russel Harvey"
> <RusselHarvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the comments.
> >
> >I didn't mean really copy file into CVSROOT when I said 'copy', was
really
> >through the check out/check in process or I won't even get this far.
Sorry
> >for the confusion.
> >
> >More specifically, the instruction I was trying to follow is from:
> >http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm#loginfo
> >
> >Where it says:
> --- snip...
> >
> >The link 'Use this version to post HTML to a newsgroup' takes to this
file -
> >loginfo -
> >http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/download/loginfo/html_news/loginfo
> >
> >At the bottom of this file, you will see:
> >DEFAULT perl -S cvs_loginfo_html.pl "%{sVv}" "$USER"
> >
> >It appears this file here: cvs_loginfo_html.pl is what really makes the
> >magic, to post a log to newsgroup nntp server.    I am convinced I
probably
> >won't need the notify file, because I just want to find out who is check
in
> >files via newsgroup for now.
>
> Yes, this is the actual program file that 'does the trick', it is a
> perl program and like you I understand zero of what is written in
> such...
>
> >I know zero about perl, so it's pretty much almost impossible for me to
code
> >this 'cvs_loginfo_html.pl' program in order to post message to nntp from
> >cvs.
>
> I also tried using these scripts but I could never understand enough
> to configure them correctly for use so I gave up.
> Instead I wrote my own email program using Delphi and called that from
> the loginfo file to get emails on commits. Works fine.
> Never worked with newsgroups though.
>
> >Anyone mind to spare some hint to me.  Thanks.
> >
> >
>
> Would you be interested in an email program istead?
>
>
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
>
>
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