We use a widely available perl script named "activity mail" to send email to developers who commit file to our cvs repository. The script sends a diff attachment with the email. The file name of the attachment is created like this:
filename=$user-@gm5,4,3,2,1,0-diff.txt
The problem is, regardless of who commits files, the $user is ALWAYS "bernie", which is my username on the cvs server. I found that the perl getlogin function always returns "bernie", regardless of who commits files:
my $user = getlogin || getpwuid($<) || "unknown";
I bit more research, and I found that get login returns the user name associated with the controlling terminal. But is a remote CentOS 5.5 server.
So why does getlogin think that "bernie" is logged into the controlling terminal on this remote server?
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