Huh? Also, use Pageant on Windows. UNIX will require ssh-agent for the same functionality. You take away login access. Do this by setting their hashed passwd in /etc/shadow to "NP", and add a line t
Hmm... I've been doing something similiar to what Stephen is/has been doing. That is, I store the vendor tarball (vendor-x.y.tar.gz), my patch of changes, and a build-vendor.sh script that takes the
You can only add files in a directory that you've already checked out from CVS. I suggest you read the manual and/or Karl Fogel's book. Links to both can be found at www.cvshome.org. -Larry Jones My
Hi, Go to http://www.red-bean.com/cvsbook/ Download or read cvsbook.html. And find the perls script mentioned in the book (The Password-Authenticating Server).
no, it keeps track of all the changes. You never lose a change. What it dosn't do is give you a friendly description of the change, as it does in the form of a diff for a text file. One can imagine a
Hi, I'm attempting to set up a pserver but I keep getting rejected access. 1st on the client side, I can log into cvs servers using pserver. There is a .cvspass file in my home directory: example bel
There is no command to remove a module. The only chance is to remove all files in the module. Then call cvs update with the option -P to delete the empty module in your working directory. In fact the
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:59:48 -0500, Greg A. Woods sent 2.8K bytes: <snip> You don't really have time to get into it - that's funny. I've read quite a bit about C++, problems, design, use, etc. I'
Hi, I am currently working on a problem managed in CVS which will take a long time to complete. About once a month, I do a release. This is organized in CVS like this: - I always have a development a
[ On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 12:15:20 (-0600), Thornley, David wrote: ] You're wrong. But let's agree to disagree on what it takes to have an "extremely well informed" opinion on a computer pro
By the way, responding to those who say "CVS is broken for XP". Many people, myself included, think that "Large-Scale C++ Software Design" by Lakos is a good book. Lakos highly advocates strict filen
A few meg still qualifies as a "large" file in my book, but the net result is the same: the only way CVS can modify a file is by making a temporary copy and then replacing the original file and the c
Hi, i just started working with cvs and i have already study the cool online book "Open Source Development with CVS". Now my question. In the beginning of testing cvs functions i created a directory
Descriptions, with absolutely no working solution. Do you get the full depth of a book by reading just the 'Foreward'? I have seen these various methods, and they are garbage. All of the tunneling,
I would keep one repository, for starters, and use tags to identify releases. There are many different ways of managing them, and I would refer you to http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/acme/branching/
The only way to learn a new tool is by using it. You don't have to wait for CVS to be installed for you, unless you don't have internet access. You should get aquainted with CVS by creating a scratch
Hello, I have posted this problem before, but the proposed solutions didn't work. Setting: We are using CVS to store 4 projects, that use some common files. Common files are in the head branch, ever
Olav: I started over and now I am getting a different error message. Here is what I did: cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init /usr/sbin/useradd cvs cd /usr/local/cvsroot chown -R cvs.cvs . chmod ug+rwx . C
Something to do with cvs server running as root, inheriting the HOME environment variable. Create a user named "cvs" and run the server under that user. Or try this as root: unset HOME /etc/rc.d/init
I am trying to set-up a CVS pserver on my RedHat 7.1 development machine. I tried reading the CVS book at http://cvsbook.red-bean.com, but it does not cover xinetd, so I tried to adapt it myself. Her