[NCLUG] CVS Auto update of web pages?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:05:07PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> When the NCLUG web-pages were being set up in CVS, Willie was talking about

That's "willy", dude :-)

> a mechanism for causing the final pages to be updated immediately when a
> commit was done.  However, this was never implemented, so right now it's
> just doing a checkout every 15 minutes or something...
> 
> I see that there's a "CVS/Checkin.prog", which gets called when a "cvs
> commit" is done.  However, this apparently is run while there's still a
> lock held, so you can't just do a "cvs update" and be done with it.

My implementation sent an email to the webserver user which upon receipt
took a local lock, ran cvs up, ran make, slept for 180 seconds and
released the lock.

The delay was to ensure that you couldn't DoS the CVS server this way.

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