I'm trying to set up a cvs server/client on a Solaris server - on the same box now, for simplicity's sake. I can worry about remote users once this works.

The default shell is /bin/sh, and I've got

# Adding this for CVS
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/cvs/binary

in /etc/profile already.

In my local .profile, I have

# CVS stuff
export CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT=:ext:me@hostname:/cvs/cvsrep

When I log in to the box over ssh, I see the error message
-sh: CVS_RSH=ssh: is not an identifier

Anyone have any ideas? I'm not very familiar with the differences between sh and bash, which is my usual default shell... (changing my shell to /bin/bash then gives me a permissions error on /etc/profile when I log in, so I don't think that's really an option). Thanks!

In some cases--I don't know why--it seems you have to break the export line in two like this: Also, you could debug by putting set -x before the export statement to get it to print out more information and put set +x just after it to turn debug off.