Re: testing cvs using local host?

[Ray Tayek]

At 09:49 PM 9/9/02 -0700, you wrote:


> Ray Tayek wrote:
> > hi, i have cvs 1.11.1p1 on slack 8.1. it seems to work fine locally.
> > ...
> > i was wondering what the incantation would be to do something on the 
> > linux box, treating it as both the client and the server.
>
>         CVSROOT=:ext:address@hidden:/home/ray/cvsroot

ok


>         ...should do the trick, but you may need
>
>         CVS_RSH = ssh
>
>         ...if your linux box has (sensibly) left rsh out of inetd.  Make 
> sure that you create a new sandbox to try this, as your current sandbox 
> will ignore CVSROOT in favor of CVS/Root.

i do have a line like:

shell   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.rshd -L

in /etc/inetd.conf.


trying to check something out as me (ray) seems to work. while trying to 
checkout something while logged in a someone else give me a permission 
denied (seems reasonable).

thanks

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