Re: FW: still having problems

[Donald Sharp]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 02:05:23PM -0500, Hanser, Kevin wrote:
> 
> I found the common answer.
> 
> I think this needs to be in the docs somewhere... since everyone is asking
> it, and just about every answer I had read in the archives was something to
> the effect of "put -f in inetd.conf".
> Well, that doesn't do it.
> 
> I finally found an archive message that related:
> 
> Yes, its a bug (IMHO).  If you restart inetd from the command prompt it
> inherits your environmental variables.  CVS gloms onto them and tries to
> read the defaults in the home directory of the user you started inetd as...

inetd was never meant to be restarted from the command prompt.  It
was meant to be started from system startup scripts.  Which is why
it has the ability to receive SIGHUP and then reread it's configuration
files.

donald
> 
> So the solution is to restart, and/or not run inetd from the command line.
> Shouldn't that be in the FAQ or docs somewhere?
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Kevin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hanser, Kevin [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 1:15 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: still having problems
> 
> 
> Well, I looked at the archives, I looked at the FAQ, but it's still doing
> it...
> I mispoke before apparently... I'm still getting the /root/.cvsignore error.
> 
> I have the -f in inetd.conf
> 
> So, according to the FAQ, this means the HOME variable is being set, right?
> So what's the easiest way to fix that?  The FAQ is pretty vague, and my
> first attempt at creating a shell script didn't work too well... so
> specifics would be nice :)
> 
> Sorry if I'm asking some common problems, but I haven't seemed to be able to
> find the common solution :)
> 
> Kevin Hanser
> System Administrator
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