CVS Administrator Reference
This section provides details on creating and configuring repositories and performing other CVS administrative tasks. A single computer can run multiple copies of the CVS server, and each server can serve multiple repositories.
Creating a Repository
Select
a directory that will contain the repository files
(/usr/local/cvsrep
is used in the following
examples). Use the init
command to initialize
the repository. Either set the
$
CVSROOT
environment variable to the absolute
path of the repository:
$export CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsrep
$cvs init
or use the -d
option to specify the absolute
path to the repository:
$ cvs -d /usr/local/cvsrep init
For information on importing code, see Section 17.6, especially
import
and add
.
Setting up the password server with inetd
If
your server uses inetd
to control services and
you want users to access the repository from other computers,
configure the pserver
by doing the following as
root:
Make sure there is an entry in
/etc/services
similar to the following:
cvspserver 2401/tcp
If you aren’t using
tcpwrappers
, place a line like this in/etc/inetd.conf
:cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
If you are using
tcpwrappers
, use a line like this:cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
Once these changes are in place, restart
inetd
(or send it the appropriate signal to cause it to rereadinetd.conf
).
Setting up the password ...
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