RE: help on pserver connection

[kent emia]

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:37, Gagneet Singh wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Sorry for not clarifying the mail contents. But they are better
> understood from the Cederqvist Manual.

yah... im here...

> 
> The Home is in the environment settins for the CVS Server. This is an
> optional field and can be ignored for now. Actually, this is the place
> where the users data is stored and when using a *nx system you have to
> make use of this if you want to access the CVS repository, but as you
> have 'root' control over the server, it will not be required by you,
> IMO, it is a good practice to use... :-)

ok thanks for clarifying.

> 
> Gagneet
> 
> 
> PS: Did the mentioned solution work???
still not... im wondering what went wrong


> 
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: kent emia [mailto:address@hidden 
> |Sent: Friday, 10 October, 2003 10:54 AM
> |To: address@hidden
> |Subject: RE: help on pserver connection
> |
> |
> |On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 12:42, Gagneet Singh wrote:
> |> Hi!
> |> 
> |> I think the thing you have done wrong is to not visit the latest of 
> |> the CVS Cederqvist manual.
> |> 
> |> It shows that after the RedHat 7 distribution the control for 
> |> cvspserver had shifted to the xnetd services avialble as separate 
> |> files under the /etc/xinetd.d directory. Here you create a 
> |file named 
> |> cvspserver and feed in the following contents to it.
> |> 
> |> # default: on
> |> #
> |> # service cvspserver
> |> #
> |> service cvspserver
> |> {
> |>    disable = no
> |>    id              = cvspserver
> |>    env             = HOME=/home/cvs
> |
> |whats this HOME for????
> |
> |
> |>    socket_type     = stream
> |>    protocol        = tcp
> |>    port            = 2401
> |>    wait            = no
> |>    user            = root
> |>    passenv         = PATH 
> |>    server          = /usr/bin/cvs
> |>    server_args     = -f --allow-root=/cvs pserver
> |> }
> |> 
> |> Where server_args is the place where you give the path to your 
> |> repository.
> |> 
> |> Hope this helps. For better understanding read the Cederqvist Manual 
> |> on CVS 1.11.5, this can be found on http://www.cvshome.org/
> |> 
> |> Gagneet
> |> 
> |> 
> |> 
> |> |-----Original Message-----
> |> |From: address@hidden
> |> |[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf 
> |> |Of kent emia
> |> |Sent: Friday, 10 October, 2003 9:13 AM
> |> |To: info-CVS
> |> |Subject: help on pserver connection
> |> |
> |> |
> |> |hello to all.. ... as of the moment i succesfully setup a
> |> |winNT CVS server and its not that hard at all. workstations 
> |> |can login/logout checkin/checkout files
> |> |
> |> |but since we are switching all workstations to linux, i want
> |> |to try it in linux. im having hard time seting up a CVS SERVER 
> |> |in a redhat9 environment. 
> |> |
> |> |im encountering this problem:
> |> |'cvs [login aborted]: reading from server: Connection reset by peer'
> |> |
> |> |as i've read
> |> |http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-|1.11.7/cvs_21.html#SEC18
> |> |4 it says that i am missing pserver in my 'inetd.conf' but i 
> |> |have it right there this is my 'inetd.conf' file
> |> |
> |> |cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs
> |> |--allow-root=/repo pserver
> |> |
> |> |that is in one line
> |> |
> |> |running 'nmap localhost' on the server i can see 
> |> |'2401/tcp   open        cvspserver' in it.. 
> |> |
> |> |im wondering what else could be wrong....
> |> |
> |> |
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-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS d- s: a- C++++ U++++ P+ L+++ E W+ N++ o- K- w---
O-- M+ V-- PS PE++ Y+ PGP- t--- 5-- X++ R tv++ b+ DI-- D+
G++ e h! r++ y--
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====================
-- Kent C. Emia --
====================
Software Studio for Concepts,
Development and Research, Corp.
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   J.P. Laurel Avenue, Davao City
   8000 Philippines
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