RE: Setting up CVS

[Christopher.Fouts]

Sounds like you did not do a "cvs init" before your
import. The command creates the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT
dir, which contains your control files...

-chris

>-----Original Message-----
>From: address@hidden 
>[mailto:address@hidden
>] On Behalf Of Michael Satterwhite
>Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 10:02 AM
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Setting up CVS
>
>
>I'm trying to setup CVS on a Linux box. I've created the 
>directory for the repository, and set CVSROOT. When I try to 
>import a project, I get the
>error:
>
>        cvs import: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
>        cvs [import aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
>
>Immediately after that, I display the environment variable and 
>get the following
>
>        >echo $CVSROOT
>        /backups.save/CVS
>
>Directory CVS *DOES* exist under /backups.save as shown:
>
>        > ls -l /backups.save/CVS
>        total 0
>        drwxr-xr-x  2 michael users 48 2004-09-13 08:37 CVSROOT
>
>What am I doing wrong? It appears that CVS is ignoring the 
>CVSROOT environment variable.
>
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