[Anthill] CVS driver problem

[Tim Colson]

>There's an additional AnthillPro list you might want to check out as 
Ok, thanks, will do.

> What's happening is AnthillPro is trying to invoke CVS by 
> creating a batch file which changes to its working directory 
The error mesg seemed to indicate something like that, but when I looked in
the directory, no bat file existed -- presumably because they are removed
after use at the INFO log level. 

> You might start by checking to see if you can open open a dos 
> window, type "cvs" and have the command run. 
Yep. Sure can, that was first on my list. :-)

Just to be safe, I rebooted the server so that the Tomcat would for sure
have the same env vars... seems to have done the trick on CVS... now the
error mesg is different -- login problem.


> While I did test 
> using the path this morning, there are fewer variables  without it. 
Not to mention that I can't seem to find that cvs screen again...Man, I've
been there twice, but the click-path still isn't obvious. Ah, there it is...
found it again. :-) 

> Another thing you might look at is to set the 
> logging level to debug (Utility->Logging Management->Edit), 
Will do!

Looks like this:

@echo off
cd /d "C:\_apps\AnthillPro\work\cvsrepositorydriver\" 
"cvs" -d :pserver:anthill-example at cvs2.urbancode.com:/usr/local/anthill-test
checkout -P Anthill-Example 

I just tried those commands and got this:
-------------------
C:\_apps\AnthillPro\work\cvsrepositorydriver>cvs -d
:pserver:anthill-example at cvs2.urbancode.com:/usr/local/anthill-test
checkout -P Anthill-Example
cvs checkout: Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password

cvs [checkout aborted]: authorization failed: server cvs2.urbancode.com
rejected access to /usr/local/anthill-test for u
ser anthill-example

C:\_apps\AnthillPro\work\cvsrepositorydriver>
-------------------

And now that I look at it... the password "anthill-example" does not seem to
be specified in the bat file, and I haven't ever logged into urbancode's cvs
server... so the error makes some sense.

I seem awfully close, but what do I need to tweak?


> Since things have been trickier than they should have been, I 
> might also suggest using the Anthill-Example project instead 
Okay -- by the way, I read the quickstart, and maybe I missed it... but
there were a few things that threw me and only figured them out after some
reading in the archives (which realllly could use a search feature <hint
hint>)

1) I didn't realize example projects were included... at first, I thought
"Gee, this is a lot of stuff" (okay, maybe that makes me stupid <grin>, but
I didn't find any mention in the quickstart that gave me a clue)

2) Coming from a background using CruiseControl -- it wasn't clear at first
that Anthill takes a "scheduled" approach instead of "fired off by CVS
commits"... and it wasn't painfully clear that I would be able to specify in
the proejct configs my ant build.xml and whatever target I wanted. I'd
suggest creating a short "one paragraph description" to go along with that
snazzy How Anthill Works diagram:
http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/default.jsp --> and put that right
up on the AnthillPro intro page.

Cheers,
Timo