Re: Scripted CVS updates?

[Alan Eldridge <alane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:41:27AM -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
>I'm trying to script cvs updates with cron for once every couple of days, or
>once a week. But, I must provide a login password to the cvs server. Is
>there a way to do that easily? perhaps something like?
>
>cvs login<< EOF
>password
>
>EOF

You should only have to do the "cvs login" magic once. Then do your initial
checkout, using -dserver-address or with CVSROOT set to the appropriate
value. After that, cvs update will "just work" for you.

So just do it manually one time to "prime the pump", and off you go.
 
-- 
Alan Eldridge
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