Re: Changing CVS repository name

[Lars Thuring]

Hi Derek,

address@hidden wrote:
> Did you chmod g+wrx /data or chmod -R g+wrx /data?  What error messages
> were you seeing?

Being in /data I typed

        chmod -R 775 cvsrep

or being in / using

        chmod -R 775 /data/cvsrep

- one of these I am no 100% sure now. I *am* sure we used a numerical 
argument for the rights. If change the cvs-user in 
/data/cvsrep/CVSROOT/passwd to cvsun (for my user now) he gets an

        setgid failed: Operation not permitted

Verifying in /etc/group I see that "cvsun" is a member of the "cvs" group.

Changing back in /data/cvsrep/CVSROOT/passwd to cvsun to "cvs" it works 
again.

> | Is there an example on how to do this somewhere online? We could also
> live with using several repositories on the same server, but this
> doesn't seem possible as there is only one /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver file
> on the server stating where the repository lies, right? The texts on
> multiple repositories we have found all talk about checking out from
> different server to the same directories on the client which is not what
> we want.
>
>
> You could set them up as different --allow-root options to your cvs
> server executable in /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver

Brilliant! :-) A quick check seems to indicate that it works exactly as 
we want. I never thought of using several --allow-root arguments in the 
cvspserver file. That makes admin of the stuff easy too. Thanks!

Another idea; we tried this quickly before doing the above. Should it 
not be possible to assoaciate different cvspserver files with different 
port numbers? So to have the cvs server to look on port 2401, 2402 and 
so on for different users? It doesn't matter now when the above works, 
but just out of curiosity.

best regards,

Lars