Re: CVS with a Novell repository (academic environement)?

[Todd Denniston]

Christopher Fuhrman wrote:
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> "Todd Denniston" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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> >
> > Christopher Fuhrman wrote:
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> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > At our university we'd like to integrate CVS with Eclipse for all of our
> > > software engineering students (they would like it, too!). However, at
> this
> > > time, the file servers are all Novell. This seems to be pretty limiting
> > > in terms of the technology,
<SNIP>
> I like your 60+GB idea (described below) because it's simple. However, the
> issue at hand would then be backups. Our Novell servers are RAID-5 and
> apparently backed up with some proprietary backup software. Finally, though,
> it may be easier to fix the backup problem than to work Novell into a
> Linux-based CVS system.

it could be something as simple as a (or set of) cron job that does:
tar --bzip2 -cf /tmp/CVS_RepositoryBackup.tar.bz2 CVSROOT_LOCATION
md5sum /tmp/CVS_RepositoryBackup.tar.bz2 >
/tmp/CVS_RepositoryBackup.tar.bz2.md5
mount /mnt/novellserver/
mv /tmp/CVS_RepositoryBackup.tar.bz2* /mnt/novellserver/storebackupshere/
umount /mnt/novellserver/
#_MY_ experience is that if a network file system works at all it is 
#less likely to fail when a whole file is written at one 
#time than if the file is written in chunks.
and let the novell servers tape backups be the long term archive of the
backups.
> 
> I'm guessing that some flavor of Linux makes ACL controls and quotas easy to
> configure. Any favorite Linux for CVS servers in this regard?
<SNIP>
I really don't know of any flavor that makes doing ACLs any easier than any
other flavor, but then I do all ACLs with the /etc/group file using vi OR
xemacs.
Of course I have a favorite distro, but no need to create a flame war here :)
SUSE could be good, and they seem to be part of Novell now...
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Todd Denniston
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Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter