Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:44:17 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> To: MET <met@uberstats.com> Cc: "'John Mills'" <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Getting started with CVS || slightly off topic again Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208051216050.9221-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> In-Reply-To: <001801c23a27$c48b3c30$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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Matthew
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, MET wrote:
> "Did you set up the connection between your [x]inetd and starting a
> server?"
>
> ... Do you mean uncommenting the line from the /etc/inetd.conf file
> allowing for cvspserver and cvs.
>
> cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs
> cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/repository pserver
> cvs stream tcp nowait root
> /usr/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/repository kserver
Basically yes, though I can't check the details. My server is a GNU/Linux
RH7.2 box, so I have:
'/etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver' with:
************************************************************************
# default: on
# description: CVS Password Server service.
#
service cvspserver
{
# flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/bin/cvs
server_args = -f --allow-root=/usr/tga/CVS pserver
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}
************************************************************************
> "Put in your environment setup:
> export CVSROOT=:pserver:192.168.1.30:/usr/local/repository "
If you can do '$ cvs login' successfully, you have the network link
working and this is just a convenience.
> Please bare[sic] with me, I'm extremely new to this.....where's my
[...passing up _almost_ irresistable 'cheap shot' ...]
> environmental setup file?
This depends on your shell and whether you want a default for all users,
or just yourself. Since this _is_ basically a _default_, you can supply or
override it whenever you type a 'cvs' command, but setting a default
server is handy.
I put my environmental settings in my '$HOME/.bash_profile' (The '.' is
needed here.) There are other files you could choose. I specify thus:
...
CVSROOT=:pserver:<hostname_or_ip>:<repository_path>
export CVSROOT
...
In your setup, I guess you would have:
CVSROOT=:pserver:192.168.1.30:/usr/local/repository
For all users, you could put the same entry in '/etc/profile'
There is no advantage, and possible inconvenience, in putting USERNAME and
PORTNO in this environmental. I leave them out. You do need to form the
login command with your username:
'cvs -d :<server_method>:<user>[:<CVS_passwd>]@<host>:<repository> login'
After you login you can see all settings with
$ env
You can look for some specific content with (for example):
$ env | grep CVS
If you're not using 'bash', check man pages for your preferred shell.
- John Mills
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