Re: Help - CVS has been dumped on me!

[David Fuller]

Sounds to me like something is misconfigured on the server end (why is
it looking at /dev/null/.cvsignore ??).  Possibly missing the -f
parameter on the cvs command line used on the server side (in the
inetd.conf file).  Of course without you having access to the server
there is likely no real way of knowing what the problem is unless
someone else has had this happen before, or until you get access.

-- David F.

> jim westoby wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> (I can't get onto a news server - for some reason it's been dead for
> about 2 months. Apologies if this is the wrong place to send it -
> although this is what the link generated.
> 
> 
> 
> I've been told to look at CVS (to replace PVCS which causes problems
> with the US office).
> 
> Our H/W bod has played with it and written a few things but he's away
> right now and I can't get it to work at all.
> 
> 
> I'm using WinCVS (on NT) and the client is installed and operational.
> I can login and have set CVSROOT to where I was told.
> 
> 
> Doing a Admin/Macro Admin/List gives -
> 
> cvs server: cannot open /dev/null/.cvsignore: Not a directory
> 
> exe/connect exe/connect
> 
> lib/generic lib/generic
> 
> However when I try to checkout/module on exe/connect I get -
> 
> 
> cvs checkout -P exe/connect (in directory C:\)
> 
> cvs server: cannot open /dev/null/.cvsignore: Not a directory
> 
> cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/dev/null): Not a directory
> 
> *****CVS exited normally with code 1*****
> 
> 
> 
> ********************************************
> 
> Working from the command line (not just a point & click merchant - I
> started on Unix).
> 
> I can Telnet into the port 2401 and get rebuffed by CVS so it [the
> server] seems to be up and running OK. I can't Telnet into any other
> port on our server they're firewalled.
> 
> 
> 
> At the prompt I set the CVSROOT value (as before for WinCVS) and
> trying as before gives -
> 
> D:\TEMP>"d:\Program Files\GNU\WinCVS\cvs" checkout  exe/Connect
> cvs checkout: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
> cvs [checkout aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
> 
> Using -d (user & server name changed for security) gives -
> 
> D:\TEMP>"d:\Program Files\GNU\WinCVS\cvs" -d
> address@hidden:/usr/local/cvsroot  checkout  exe/Connect
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot connect to socket: Connection refused
> 
> 
> 
> (I couldn't find a way of getting the module list from the command
> line.)
> 
> Trying to login doesn't seem to work either ('can only be used with
> pserver method').
> 
> 
> 
> *******************************
> 
> Basically what I would like is -
> 
> A remedial description of how to checkout from the command line (to
> prove it works)
> 
> A blow by blow description of how to checkout (exe/connect above)
> using WinCVS.
> 
> 
> 
> Once I've got started then it should be more obvious but at the moment
> it's just sitting there looking at me and spitting error messages
> which I don't know what they 'mean' to CVS.
> 
> (OK I know what Not a directory means but why is it needed does this
> only work with superuser privilege or something?)
> 
> I don't have a login (as myself or root) on the Unix box so I'm
> limited as to what I can do - but even just being able to say I
> couldn't do it because I needed a login/it was not set up
> correctly/etc is progress of a sort!
> 
> (Spot the person covering his back here.)
> 
> 
> 
> Any help is appreciated, sorry it was so long but I thought complete
> info was called for.
> 
> 
> 
>     jim westoby
> 
>     address@hidden
> 
> 
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