Re: xinetd & CVS

[Matthias Kranz]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 06:44:25AM +0000, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> In article <address@hidden>, Ken Hu wrote:
> >Mandrake 8.1 is using xinetd instead of inetd now , I do have
> >xinetd.conf in my /etc folder,
> >so , what's going wrong here ?

If you are using the Mandrake CVS RPM everything should be set up
automagically. You just need to add the path to your repository to
/etc/cvs/cvs.conf.

If you are using your own compiled version of CVS try this somewhat more
generic solution.
Try to add a file cvspserver to /etc/xinetd.d/, which contains

service cvspserver
{
        socket_type         = stream
        protocol            = tcp
        wait                = no
        user                = root
        passenv             = 
        server              = /usr/bin/cvs
        server_args         = --allow-root=/path/to/cvs/repo
}

> Red Hat switched to xinetd, which causes the upgrade to 7.2 to mess up
> your inetd setup. No effort is made to automatically convert your
> inetd configuration to xinetd (which is probably just as well). You
> basically boot up the upgrade system, find that nothing works, then
> discover that you are now using xinetd, and proceed to build up an
> xinetd configuration based on your existing inetd configuration.
> 
> My little pet peeve was that there was no warning about this; nothing
> that I noticed anyway. It's probably in some release notes document,
> but who reads those? :)

I don't know what this has to do with trying to solve Ken's problem.

> >Please give me some advice to resolve this problem .
> 
> How about this: please ask Linux setup questions in a Linux
> setup newsgroup. CVS has no special relationship with xinetd.
> 
> RTFM about xinetd and set it up.

30 lines of text with just no information. Very interesting.

Cheers,
Matthias
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Matthias Kranz                                     address@hidden
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