Re: Some cvs questions

[Ray Tayek]

At 04:18 PM 9/23/02 -0700, Anne McCaffrey wrote:
> ... I have been using cvs for sometime now.I am using client-server 
> configuration with rhosts authentication.
> Server is on unix machine and clients are linux and win nt and win 98 
> machines.

not sure what rhosts authentication is


> What I want to know is how cvs is being invoked from the client side?I am 
> sure it is not just setting the CVS_SERVER variable on the client and 
> .rhosts file on the server....


i have cvs on slack 8.1, and cygwin on win98. using just a line like:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:address@hidden:/home/ray/cvsroot

i was able to get a cvs history and login commands to work.

also, using gnu's wincvs i can get the login and history command to work.

hth


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