Hey guys, this is my first time posting here so I'd like to say "hi" first of all.

now to my problem.

I have two linux boxes set up in my office. One is running Red Hat 9.0 and the other one is running SUSE 9.1.

I had the RH server running for a few weeks and I had set up CVS on it and it works perfectly.

Actually, CVS was already loaded on the RH server I guess typically just from a normal installation. The only thing I had to do was do the:

cvs -d /usr/local/repository init

Then properly chown/chmod the directory then that was it.

I do all my development through Websphere Studio Development Client and all I had to do to tie my client to the server was create a new repository and put in the repository location: /usr/local/repository, my log in name, and password, and I used extshh.

Worked absolutely perfectly.

So then I download and install SUSE 9.1 on the other server and find out CVS is not even installed there. So I use Yast to get the package and install it. I followed the same set up, except I couldn't get it to work at all through extshh.

I set it up for pserver instead by adding the proper lines in my /etc/services

cvspserver tcp/2401 etc.

And then went ahead and added the cvspserver file to my /etc/xinitd.d directory.

it looks like it's connecting but I cant check files in or out at all. It says something about cannot create lock.

First of all, why can't I use extshh with SUSE 9.1/CVS ? Anyone have any ideas what it could be?

It seemed so easy with Red hat but so difficult with SUSE 9.1, anyone have any clue? Thanks so much!

Hi mbeutel,

Would you be able to share with me how you setup CVS in RH9, thanks.

I am facing problem with it.

Thanks.

Pak

I would like to know the installation procedure of CVS on REdHat Linux 9.can you share the same in a document?
you can email to suryanarayana.murthy@tcs.com

Thanks & Regards,
Murthy

Hello Mbeutel,

one possible reason you are getting this error is that when you try and check out a file as non-route it changes the group to the user primary group. You have to make the group file permission stick by logging on as root, going to the repository dir e.g. /home/cvsrep
And issuing the command >chmod g+w .
Try this!
And now can anyone help me. I can not get pserver working on a redhat 9 machine. When I >telnet localhost 2401 I get a conection refused message. When I nmap -v localhost the 2401 port is not active, even though I have enabled cvs, checked xinetd has a cvspserver file, and that a mapping exists in services! Help anyone?

Can you share your cvs setup in redhat? how xinetd configuration for cvspserver? I got a problem in debian when I used pserver for connection, it show me :-Server configuration missing --allow-root in inetd.conf , but I am using xinetd instead of inetd.