Re: Vijay - two questions on CVS

[Mahantesh]

Vijay Kumar wrote:

> I have the following  two questions for which I need  some help : 
> a) How should we delete a complete module form a  
>   respository ? Do we need to stop the cvs server ( xinetd ) 
>  Is it just removed by rm -rf  <dir>. 
If you really want to remove a module that is correct. Hope you will 
take backup before that.

>  Upon starting te xinetd or the cvs server , will the server not 
>  realise that there  is some change in the repository and 
> complain about the same ?  I have been trying to find out 
> about these things, but have got no answers till now. 
No, you need not stop or restart the server to remove a module. Even if 
you do that the server will not crib
that a module is missing.

> b) We ususally access the CVS Server ( on Linux ) from the  
>     Windows 2K prof box by using WinCVS 1.3 or 1.2 
>     Once a user logs in via WinCvs, it retains the seting sin the 
>    preferences Tab. Now, if I change the user name from user 
>    "xyz" to user "abc", we can see the change in the 
>    preferances tab, but when we click the login option., we 
>   still see the old user name in the "OutPut" box below and 
>   WinCVS is asking for the password for the old user. 
>   I usually overcome this by 
>   a) Logging in though command line or 
>   b) .cvspass file. - Only sometimes this solves this problem. 
>      not always. 
>  Alternatively I have to reinstall WinCVS on some Windows 
>  box, for the new user to log in. 
Although  this question is wincvs question, here is the solution:
After you change the username in preferences tab and clicked OK, put 
your highlight on someother folder that you had it before.
Then do admin>>login. It will definitely ask for passwd of new user.

HTH.
Mahantesh.
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