From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 5:36: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7819437B401 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 05:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (bgp626680bgs.brick201.nj.comcast.net [68.39.132.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A10B843E5E for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 05:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsam@trini0.org) Received: (qmail 52446 invoked by uid 0); 16 Jul 2002 12:35:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO trini0.org) (192.168.0.3) by hivemind.trini0.org with SMTP; 16 Jul 2002 12:35:48 -0000 Message-ID: <3D341324.8090009@trini0.org> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:35:48 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020525 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Karoliussen Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cvs & pserver References: <20020716122214.56FA83EC6@f2.active-area.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Apparently the problem was the way I was setting the environment. When I ran -> export CVSROOT=/files/www/data/source as one command, everything ran smoothly. Kenneth Karoliussen wrote: >Gerard Samuel wrote: > > >>Ive had cvs setup for some time now, and Im trying to set it up using >>pserver. >>Ive setup the CVSROOT environment like so -> >> >>CVSROOT=/files/www/data/source >>export CVSROOT >> >>I setup a passwd file under CVSROOT/passwd >> >>I could log into the cvs server with -> >>cvs -d :pserver:gsam@cvs.trini0.org:/files/www/data/source login >> >> From here, when I try to do cvs co , I keep getting -> >>cvs [checkout aborted]: /files/www/data/source/CVSROOT: No such file or >>directory >> >>The directory CVSROOT does exist. Does anyone know what my problem may be. >>Thanks >> >> >> > >cvs obviously has a problem locating the approperiate CVSROOT structure >with the necessary control files. It should normally be located under >${CVSROOT}/CVSROOT/ > >Please check the cvs (1) manual and the init command; > ><< >init - Initialize a repository by adding the CVSROOT sub- >directory and some default control files. You must >use this command or initialize the repository in >some other way before you can use it. > >> > >I.e. $ cvs -d /files/www/data/source init > >(You may omit -d if you set the CVSROOT variable). > >Best, > >Kenneth Karoliussen > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message