Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 01:21:27 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatically cvsupdating? Message-ID: <15293.20839.392353.382944@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <018f01c14d45$fb840520$059b140a@dan> References: <15292.6734.657188.339878@guru.mired.org> <018f01c14d45$fb840520$059b140a@dan>
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Dan O'Connor <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> types: > > Um - just curious, but why are you making it HTML mail then wrapping > > it in PRE? Why not just leave it as text/plain? > > So that the e-mail shows up in a fixed-width font (Courier New) in Outlook > Express. Plain text shows up in a proportially-spaced font, and it's difficult > to read reports and logs. In other words, you're working around a bug in Outlook Express. As a warning to others, this kind of things works fine for cvsup, but for general text you need to filter it. > Then, create an executable file /usr/local/bin/cvsrun: > > echo "Subject: `hostname` weekly cvsup run" > echo "Content-type: text/html" > echo "" > echo "" > echo "<PRE>" > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/src/stable-supfile > echo "</PRE>" To be completely safe,that middle line should be: /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/src/stable-supfile | sed -e 's/&/&/g' -e 's/</\</g' <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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