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CVS Setup

CVS server setup

Future naming convention

/export/cvswork        # cvs working folder. Modules come and go often
                       # keep a local copy just to save bandwidth
/export/cvsarchive     # my own local cvs archive. keep forever

Steps

Setting up CVS as a server on a Linux Box
http://www.kryptonians.net/cvs/server_setup.html

verify CVS port settings

# grep cvs /etc/services
cvspserver      2401/tcp                        # CVS client/server operations
cvspserver      2401/udp                        # CVS client/server operations
cvsup           5999/tcp        CVSup           # CVSup file transfer/John Polstra/FreeBSD
cvsup           5999/udp        CVSup           # CVSup file transfer/John Polstra/FreeBSD

This identifies the port CVS server will use. In most Linux/Unix installations, this is already defined. Port 2401 is the commonly accepted default port for CVS use.

create /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver

xsel -p > /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver
service cvspserver
{
   socket_type = stream
   protocol    = tcp
   wait        = no
   user        = root
   passenv     = PATH
   server      = /usr/bin/cvs
   server_args = -f -l --allow-root=/export/cvs pserver
   disable     = no
}

If cvspserver is defined in '/etc/services', you can omit the port line.
That second parameter is a lowercase 'L', not a 1 or an uppercase 'i'.
The last parameter, '—allow-root=' defines the location of the repository to be used. There can be more than one, in which case each would have its own '—allow-root' parameter.

Restart the inet daemon

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

test

export CVS_RSH=ssh
cd ~/work/CVSROOT
cvs -d :ext:$USER@sunshine:/export/cvs status