[Cvsnt] Shadow folder in cvs

John Peacock jpeacock at rowman.com
Thu Mar 21 17:13:59 GMT 2002


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Arvind Raman wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to migrate from VSS to CVS. Since VSS has
> a concept of shadow folders I am trying to get the
> same setup up.
> I am running the CVSNT server and the client on the
> WIN 2000 platform and am using the NTSERVER protocol.
> Based of the guidelines given in the cederqvist manual
> I added the following lines to the loginfo file
> ^mac (date; cat; (sleep 2; cd /c/temp;cvs -q update
> -d) &) >> $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/updatelog 2>&1
> such that any commits to the mac module causes an
> update in the c:\temp directory.
> When I commit the mac module it does recognize the
> changes made to the loginfo file but outputs the
> following error
>
> Executable (date; cat; (sleep 2; cd /c/temp;cvs -q
> update -d) &) >>
> :local:c:/cvsrepository/CVSROOT/updatelog 2>&1  not
> found
> Could Not Create Child Process (error 2)
>
> I tried several variants of the script but still
> couldn't get the thing running. I understand that the
> example given is for the unix platform. Anybody any
> suggestions ??

You cannot do this under NT; there is no comparible concept for background
processes even if everything in that line above would work.  If you are looking
to keep a checked out copy of this module, try here:

	http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm

look for CVSNTUpd.

HTH

John

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