From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-06-29T23:42:39+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:17064] Re: "cvs commit" from within ruby Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:17059] "cvs commit" from within ruby" on 01/06/29, Clemens Wyss writes: |Unfortunately I don't get to see the error message of my try to commit. |Why does commit not work as a system-call? I'm not sure what was your problem. But I think you have to capture stderr from the command. Try system("cvs update 2>&1") or require "open3" matz.