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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Chapter 13: The Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
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.rhosts
Used when connecting with rsh. This file should be in the user’s home direc-
tory on the server machine, and it should contain the client’s computer and
username.
The rsh command is unacceptably insecure. You should avoid it
completely; use ssh instead.
Environment Variables
Several environment variables affect CVS. Some are read-only when CVS is the
client, and some are read-only when CVS is the server. When the repository
resides on the local machine, both sets are read.
Client Environment Variables
The environment variables in the following list are read and used by the process
that runs on the client computer and must be in the calling user’s environment:
CVS_CLIENT_LOG
Used for debugging CVS in client/server mode. If set, everything sent to the
server is stored in the $CVS_CLIENT_LOG.in file, and everything received by
the client is stored in $CVS_CLIENT_LOG.out.
CVS_CLIENT_PORT
Used to set the port the client uses to connect to the CVS server in kserver,
gserver, and pserver modes. By default, the client uses port 2401 (gserver
and pserver) or port 1999 (kserver) to connect to the server.
CVSIGNORE
A whitespace-separated list of filename patterns that should be ignored. See
the description of the .cvsignore file, earlier in this ...
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