Re: CVS Config problems

[Larry Jones]

Tige D. Chastain writes:
> 
> On my RH6.1 box, this is what I had to end up putting in 
> /etc/inetd.conf to get CVS to allow me to pull down commits
> over network (using pserver obviously):
> 
> cvspserver strea tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/env \
> HOME=/home/cvs /usr/bin/cvs -f --allow-root=/usr/src/cvs pserver

It would probably be better to do:

        cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/env \
        - /usr/bin/cvs -f --allow-root=/usr/src/cvs pserver

The `-' causes env to delete everything from the environment (some
implementations of env use `-i' instead).

> I found this solution digging through the archives on egroups.com
> for info-cvs.  Strangly enough, I didn't find it in any of the 
> "normal" documentation.

As of CVS 1.11, "Trouble making a connection to a CVS server" in the CVS
manual mentions the problem and its underlying cause, and mentions env
as one possible solution (although it doesn't give an example since the
exact syntax varies as noted above).

-Larry Jones

Oh yeah?  You just wait! -- Calvin