RE: move cvs from solaris to solaris

[Wiest, Damian]

I apologize if this gets posted twice, my client crashed while sending the
message and it hasn't appeared on the list.

-Damian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wiest, Damian 
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:25 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: move cvs from solaris to solaris
> 
> 
> Which version of Solaris will you be running on the new 
> hardware?  If the vendor's doing the installation it may very 
> well be Solaris 9 in which case you shouldn't have to change 
> your setup; however, be aware that Solaris 10 introduced the 
> Service Management Facility which is meant as a replacement 
> for inetd and the rc (IIRC) directories.  I believe there 
> were some messages on the sun-managers list a few weeks ago 
> about working with the new system.  I am running Solaris 10 
> on a few servers, but haven't had to convert any inetd 
> services, so I can't give you exact details for migrating to SMF.
> 
> Here's a snippet from the inetd(1M) manpage on Solaris 10:
> 
>      Services are no longer managed by editing the  inetd  confi-
>      guration  file, inetd.conf(4). Instead, you use inetconv(1M)
>      to convert the configuration file content  into  SMF  format
>      services,  then  manage these services using inetadm(1M) and
>      svcadm(1M). Once a service has been converted  by  inetconv,
>      any changes to the legacy data in the inetd config file will
>      not become effective. However, inetd does alert the adminis-
>      trator when it notices change in the configuration file. See
>      the start description under the "inetd Methods" section  for
>      further information.
> 
>      Also note that the current inetd cannot be run from  outside
>      the  SMF. This means it cannot be run from the command line,
>      as was supported by the previous inetd. If you attempt to do
>      this,  a  message  is  sent  to  stderr  displaying mappings
>      between the options supported by the previous inetd  to  the
>      SMF version of inetd.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> -Damian
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:31 AM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: move cvs from solaris to solaris
> > 
> > 
> > I have a couple of questions.
> > 
> > My current situation is I started working at a company with a
> > solaris 8 box that has a cvs repository on it.  The box is 
> > old is being replaced by a muh newer box.  The long and the 
> > short of it is that I need to get cvs off of the old box and 
> > onto the new box.
> > 
> > The problem, ... I have never used or worked with cvs ... ever.
> > 
> > What I think I know:
> > CVS runs on the solaris box as the cvs user.
> > It is started as part of the inetd service.  (entry below)
> > cvspserver      stream  tcp     nowait  cvs     
> /usr/local/bin/run.cvs
> > 
> > The run.cvs file sets a variable that contains all of the
> > repositories, and then runs the following exec 
> > /usr/local/bin/cvs -f $myrepository pserver
> > 
> > the myrepository variable looks something like this
> > myrepository="--allow-root=/cvs/repository1
> > --allow-root=/cvs/repository2 ..... "
> > 
> > The /etc/services file has the following 2 entries
> > cvspserver      2401/tcp
> > cvspserver      2401/udp
> > 
> > ** Currently, the server running cvs is on a unix domain.
> > The new server will not be on a unix domain.
> 
> [snip]
>