Re: Allow root question

[Edward MacGillivray]

Actually at one point I did this (ln -s /path/to/root/jail/cvsroot /cvsroot), 
and it did work the way I wanted.  I was concerned that this would invalidate 
the whole root jail.  I am also not in favor of having extra stuff in the 
root directory (/).

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:56 pm, Mike Ayers wrote:
> man ln
>
>       Check the '-s' flag.
>
>
> /|/|ike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Edward MacGillivray [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:28 AM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Allow root question
> >
> >
> >
> > I am trying to setup our cvs (p)server after upgrading to
> > RedHat 7.3 and I can
> > not get the configuration to be like the way it was
> > previously installed (on
> > RedHat 7.0, with a previous version of cvs).
> >
> > I have successfully configured it so that cvs works under
> > xinetd, however the
> > problem is in regard to the "root" of the repository.
> > Previously the root
> > was /cvsroot, and now when I ask for a status of already
> > checked out material
> > it indicates that the root is unknown.  This I understand is
> > because the
> > --allow-root argument is /path/to/root/jail/cvsroot.  If I
> > manually change
> > the CVS/root files to use the full path
> > (/path/to/root/jail/cvsroot), it then
> > performs that status normally.
> >
> > The problem is that I do not want the -d argument (or the
> > $CVSROOT) to include
> > the full path of the root jail.  I want
> >
> > :pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot to map to
> >
> > /path/to/root/jail/cvsroot on the server.  This is how it used to be
> > configured, using cvsd under xinetd not cvs under xinetd.  I
> > have tried to
> > use cvsd under xinetd with this setup but cvsd never responds
> > to telnet
> > requests on port 2401 and never works with the cvs command.
> >
> > The reason for this is two fold, first why should users have
> > to remember the
> > full path to the repository, the server is a server and it
> > should know where
> > the root jail is.  Second, if this can not be done, then all
> > the locations
> > that have previously checked out material from the repository
> > will have to
> > either re-checkout, or edit all the CVS/root files to point
> > at the new root.
> >
> > The closest thing to documentation on how to set up a cvs
> > pserver is examples
> > of what people use for in their xinetd.d/cvspserver file.
> > These have gotten
> > me this far, but it appears that documentation on how to
> > administrate a cvs
> > server and what can be done does not exist.  For instance, I
> > have found zero
> > information about the --allow-root switch in the cvs command,
> > even after
> > checking the man page, the executable itself, and
> > cvshome.org.  Were it not
> > for the examples of the xinetd.d/cvspserver I would not even
> > know it existed.
> >
> > thanks
> > mac
> >
> >
> >
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Edward MacGillivray
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