Changing CVS repository name

[Lars Thuring]

Hi,

we want to use a new directory for our repository. It is currently
residing in

        /data/cvsroot

and using Red Hat 7.2. That repository is working correctly. It is a NFS
mounted directory.

The steps we take are

1) Rename the above to

        /data/cvsroot_old

2) Create a new dir called

        /data/cvsrep

3) Execute

        cvs -data /data/cvsrep init

4) Copy the passwd file from the previous repository.

5) We change the file /etc/xinet.d/cvspserver to point at the new location.

6) We change access rights, mainly to 775. Set the owner and group to
"cvs" which is also the user defined in /data/cvsrep/CVSROOT/passwd.
This is the same passwd file as in the previous repository.

7) Restarting

        /etc/init.d/network restart
        /etc/init.d/xinetd restart


Needless to say this doesn't work when we try to access the fresh
repository... regardless of what we do we get

        address@hidden lth]$ cvs login
        Logging in to :pserver:address@hidden:2401/data/cvsrep
        CVS password:
        /data/cvsrep: no such repository


This error message comes regardless of if we fake a user, use the
correct values and so on.

We suspected there was some config file which links directly to
/data/cvsroot, but a grep on the whole harddisk revealed nothing.

There is nothing in ~/.cvsrc on the client machines.

So now we are feeling rather lost (read stupid) having googled and
how-to'ed through anything we can think of - where is the problem?



Thanks in advance,
lars