Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-19 Thread Eric
On Sat, March 19, 2011 12:29 am, Nolan Darilek wrote: Thanks. It isn't that I couldn't figure out a convoluted solution involving multiple users, groups and permissions. I just thought that Fossil could gracefully degrade if it couldn't write to the home directory, not enabling some

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-19 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Eric e...@deptj.eu wrote: HOME is just an environment variable, so if you could find some way to set it to some other location just before Fossil runs ... (a wrapper for fossil, perhaps) I had forgotten that. Depending on your version of cron, this command

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-19 Thread Eric Junkermann
On Sat, March 19, 2011 3:01 pm, Ron Wilson wrote: snip Prefixing a command with a variable assignment causes the command shell to export that variable for the duration of the command (Amazing how few people seem to know that :-) ) (unless your version of cron uses a limited version of the

[fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Nolan Darilek
I'm trying to integrate my Fossil project into a series of web apps. For instance, I have an Android translation tool, and I want to set up a cron job to update the sources every five minutes such that the web app always has the latest version of strings available to it. However, whenever I

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Ron Wilson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Nolan Darilek no...@thewordnerd.info wrote: I'm trying to integrate my Fossil project into a series of web apps. For instance, I have an Android translation tool, and I want to set up a cron job to update the sources every five minutes such that the web app

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Ron Wilson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Nolan Darilek no...@thewordnerd.info wrote: These aren't pages. They're files from my source tree fed into a translation tool written in PHP. It pretty much has to work as I've described here. Failing all else, you could copy the files (exclusive of the

Re: [fossil-users] Home directory must be writable.

2011-03-18 Thread Martin Gagnon
Le 2011-03-18 à 20:29, Nolan Darilek no...@thewordnerd.info a écrit : Thanks. It isn't that I couldn't figure out a convoluted solution involving multiple users, groups and permissions. I just thought that Fossil could gracefully degrade if it couldn't write to the home directory, not