OSS 2007 was a very interesting conference, which I was glad to attend.
Next edition should be promising too.
I’ve just see an anouncement for next edition, and the schedule for papers submission is tight (December 14th, 2007).
More details at http://oss2008.dti.unimi.it/
You may have the need some day to issue CVS commands (same stands for SVN I think) using the SSH connection (such as CVS_RSH=ssh and so on) in a crontab. The problem may be that you need to type a password to get granted the SSH connection. With SSH public keys and ssh-agent it’s easy, but in a crontab, that will no longer work
It’s pretty easy… well… doable at least
The trick is to launch the CVS commands with a “ssh” script in the PATH, which will be something like this :
#! /bin/sh
export SSH_ASKPASS=/whereveryouwant/my-ssh-askpass
export DISPLAY=:0
unset TERM
exec setsid /usr/bin/ssh $*
and where the my-ssh-askpass script will simply do :
#! /bin/sh
echo yourpreferredpassword
Hope this helps
I’ve had the pleasure last week to present the PicoForge platform to the delegates of JRES 2007 with a beautiful poster.
Comments welcome