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Re: Vijay - two questions on CVS


From: Vijay Kumar
Subject: Re: Vijay - two questions on CVS
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:06:45 +0530

Thnx a ton for your kind help and time.

Regards,
Vijay.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mahantesh" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: Vijay - two questions on CVS


> 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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