June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 49m
English
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Appendix B. Administrator’s Tools
CVS is an open source program, and all the information necessary to interface to it or change it is freely available. It is also a very popular system. The combination of these two factors means that a wide variety of programs and tools have been written for CVS.
The tools in this appendix range from a port of CVS to the Windows NT operating system, to a small tool to mail log messages automatically. Other programs include several different viewers to display the contents of the repository with an HTTP server and a useful program that implements access-control lists.
CVS Variants
The CVS license allows you to modify the CVS code and distribute the modified code. Several variants are provided by developers who have produced expansions of CVS for specific purposes.
CVS/MVS
CVS/MVS is a port of CVS for the MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) mainframe operating system, also known as OS/390 and zOS. CVS/MVS requires MVS with POSIX configured, and the HFS (Heirarchical File System).
CVS/MVS is a port of both the server and the command-line client.
CVS/MVS is available at http://cvsmvs.dccmn.com/.
CVSNT
CVSNT is an alternative CVS server for Windows NT and later, Unix, and Linux. It includes a command-line client as well as the server, and the client can be used with some of the integration tools described in Appendix A.
As well as running on Windows operating systems, CVSNT provides an
additional access method, sspi, that authenticates using NT domain passwords. ...
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