Re: tlug: cvs

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Scott> how does one create a cvs repository, and what is the
>     Scott> daemon binary for handling it?
> 
> There are a couple ways you can use CVS. You control which method your
> using by the CVSROOT environment variable. You can have the repository
> on a local or NFS mounted file system and access it directly. In this
> case, you might set CVSROOT like:
> 
> setenv CVSROOT /data/repository
> 
> CVS can also working in a client/server mode. This is done either
> trough rsh, or by CVS internal authentication mechanism, pserver. For
> rsh:
> 
> setenv CVSROOT :ext:andy@example.com:/data/repository/
> 
> for pserver later case, CVSROOT would look like:
> 
> setenv CVSROOT :pserver:andy@example.com:/data/repository/
> 
> In this case, you need an inetd setting like:
> 
> cvs             stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/cvs      cvs     pserver
> 
> To make a new repository, set CVSROOT to where you want it and then
> run cvsinit.
> 
> See http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html for more info.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Andy

ok, is 'andy@example.com' the login/machine of the repository owner, or is it in
this case saying who has access to the repository?

Thanks for the help!

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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