June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 49m
English
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The ext and server Access Methods
In my
experience, ext is the most commonly used access
method, and it is usually used with SSH. ext
stands for external, which refers to an external (to CVS)
rsh or remote shell program. This method uses a
remote shell program to connect the sandbox client computer to the
repository server computer. The server method is
almost the same as the ext method. The only
difference is that server uses a remote shell
program that is included with CVS.
To use a program other than rsh with the
ext connection method, the
CVS_RSH
environment variable on
the client should be set to the name of the program and the directory
containing the program should be in the user’s
PATH on the client computer. Alternatively, you
can set the CVS_RSH environment variable to the
absolute path to the program, without modifying the
PATH variable.
ext accepts any command line-based program that
can be called with the following syntax:
program [-b] [-l username] host commands
The program must run the commands in a remote shell and pipe standard
input (stdin) and standard output
(stdout) without filtering the content. The
-b is necessary only if the program is running
on OS/2 and is used to force rsh to run in
binary mode, without end-of-file conversion. The
-l
username is used (by CVS) only if
there is a username included in the repository path.
For the ext access method, the repository path
format is:
[:ext:][user@]hostname[:]/path
The user needs to have a username on both the ...
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