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I didn't get any response on my search for a good nightly export script, so I made one myself. This is my first attempt at writing anything in PERL, so if there are any PERL programmers out there I'd certainly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes and review it for me. The idea is that you launch it from a CRON job and have it create a nightly .tgz of the HEAD of whichever modules you define in the config file. That config file is kept in CVS so a CVS admin is still using CVS for most changes to the configuration outside the initial setup (default is "CVS-ROOT/cvs-nightly.conf" but is configurable). This script is designed to work with SourceForge projects but is easily customized to work with any repository (look for "cvsroot"). To install the script: 1) Customize cvs-nightly.conf with the modules and branch/tag to be exported. 2) Add the config file to your CVSROOT (or other path in the target repository) and commit it*. 3) Configure the cvs-nightly main script with locations for temp, outpath, and configfile. 4) (if necessary) mark cvs-nightly as executable. 5) Run cvs-nightly. -v will include verbose output, -k will keep the temp files. The default operation is very quiet unless there is a problem. * NOTE: SourceForge still has about a 5 hour delay between when a CVS update is made and when it shows up in the anonymous server. This means that the config file will take about 5 hours to show up if you're running against a SourceForge server. SourceForge has said they are working on getting this down to minutes when they complete a server upgrade soon. Regards, -- Glen Starrett