Trouble adding and updating

2001-05-29 Thread Anette Van Aswegen
Hi I have trouble adding a file. I receive the following error message: Added independently by second party. When updating, I receive the following error message: "filename.ext" is not pertinent. What could be the problem and how do I fix it? Thank you Anette van Aswegen _

Re: login problems - problem details given clearly

2001-05-29 Thread David Zaroski
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Bhavaniprasad Polimetla wrote: BP>My xinetd.conf file is as follows. BP> BP># BP># Simple configuration file for xinetd BP># BP># Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/ BP> BP>defaults BP>{ BP>instances = 60 BP>log_type= SYSLOG

Help with NT to UNIX commands

2001-05-29 Thread Arlene Govender
Hi Can someone please help me. We have cvs lying on a UNIX box. We need to check in and check out from inside Siebel which is lying on a NT machine. Can someone please help me with the WindowsNT Command lines that are needed to access, check in, check out etc from the cvs repository. Any help

RE: taginfo when no work to do

2001-05-29 Thread Andy Baker
Fairy snuff, though I feel that cvs should still pass the name(s) of the file(s) the user has requested be operated on - not that it's of great importance. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Andy Baker writes: > > If cvs has no work to do

Re: Help with NT to UNIX commands

2001-05-29 Thread Federico Montesino Pouzols
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:05:51PM +0200, Arlene Govender wrote: > Hi Hi! > > Can someone please help me. We have cvs lying on a UNIX box. We need to check in and >check out from inside Siebel which is lying on a NT machine. Can someone please help >me with the WindowsNT Command lines

CVS

2001-05-29 Thread amit madhok
sir, I have never used CVS before. i would like you to provide me information on the issues What is the difference between CVS and CVSNT.(apart from that for NT u need to have nt as server) To run CVS what is the server requirement and client requirement?? What are open soureprojects (like Mozi

Re: CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Federico Montesino Pouzols
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:15:13AM -, amit madhok wrote: > sir, > I have never used CVS before. i would like you to provide > me information on the issues These are sites with many cvs resources: www.gnu.org/software/cvs www.cvshome.org www.cvsgui.org

Can't commit as root

2001-05-29 Thread Dominik Vogt
I want to manage the config files on our server in CVS. The CVS server is already up and running (access rights are given by putting users in the 'cvs' group). Everything works fine except that I can't use CVS as root. When I try to commit anything into cvs as the root user, I simply get this m

For Help!

2001-05-29 Thread lxn123
I am using the cvs software and have some questions now. I installed cvs on the workstation, and set it on pserver mode. I also installed the wincvs1.2 on the PC. When I remote access the workstation from PC, I get the wrong response. Please tell me the reason and how to correct the faults, thanks

Re: Can't commit as root

2001-05-29 Thread Matthew Riechers
Dominik Vogt wrote: > When I try to commit anything into > cvs as the root user, I simply get this message: > > cvs [server aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root' > > What can I do about this (yes, the root user is in the cvs group)? > cvs won't let you commit as root since it can't tell

Asking for help!

2001-05-29 Thread ÁõÐÂÄþ
I am using the cvs software and have some questions now. I installed cvs on the workstation, and set it on pserver mode. I also installed the wincvs1.2 on the PC. When I remote access the workstation from PC, I get the wrong response. Please tell me the reason and how to correct the faults, thanks

RE: how to 'lock down' a branch?

2001-05-29 Thread Andy Baker
I suggest you'll need to write a commitinfo script that'll examine any commits and reject them if they're on one of the locked codestreams. See http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC165 Andy -Original Message- From: Kevin Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 May 2001 22:45 To

Re: error: poll: protocol failure in circuit setup

2001-05-29 Thread Donald Sharp
Your having rsh problems. Can't help you, I don't understand rsh. donald On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:11:34AM +0530, Bhavaniprasad Polimetla wrote: > > when we try to do checkout, we are facing following problem. > > poll: protocol failure in circuit setup > cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file f

Re: question about cvs!

2001-05-29 Thread Donald Sharp
Your using a version of cvs that is compiled for a later version( 2.6,2.8? ) of solaris than what you are using. Get the source and compile. donald On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:51:44AM +0800, wangc wrote: > hi, > I just want to use cvs for a project's version control.And now > I have installed

Re: Can't commit as root

2001-05-29 Thread Donald Sharp
cvs will not let you commit as root. If you would like to change this you will need to compile cvs with CVS_BADROOT not defined( in options.h). donald On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:56:36PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > I want to manage the config files on our server in CVS. The CVS > server is alr

Re: How to prevent multiple checkouts in cvs?

2001-05-29 Thread Donald Sharp
What exactly are you trying to do? donald On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:02:11AM +0530, Bhavaniprasad Polimetla wrote: > Dear Sir, > > How to prevent multiple checkouts in cvs? > > thankyou, > Bhavani. > > > ___ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTE

Windows command line

2001-05-29 Thread Arlene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Can someone please help me. We have cvs lying on a UNIX box. We need to check in and check out from inside Siebel which is lying on a NT machine. Can someone please help me with the WindowsNT Command lines that are needed to access, check in, check out etc from the cvs repository. Any help wi

Re: How to prevent multiple checkouts in cvs?

2001-05-29 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:02:11AM +0530, Bhavaniprasad Polimetla wrote: > How to prevent multiple checkouts in cvs? No chance, since this 'Concurrent' is what what the 'C' in 'CVS' stands for. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kranz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble adding and updating

2001-05-29 Thread Donald Sharp
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:04:55AM +0200, Anette Van Aswegen wrote: > Hi > > I have trouble adding a file. I receive the following error message: Added > independently by second party. > When updating, I receive the following error message: "filename.ext" is not > pertinent. > > What could be th

Re: how to 'lock down' a branch?

2001-05-29 Thread Harald Kucharek
Kevin Yang wrote: > > Hi, > > Can I 'lock down' a branch in cvs? I need to do it so no check-ins can > happen to a release branch. It basically becomes a 'read-only' branch. > > Thanks, > > Kevin Why do you want to have this? Usually, when you make a release, you tag the current state of the

RE: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Thornley, David
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:48 PM > To: Mark > Cc: CVS Mailing List > Subject: Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS > > > The problem is that pserver cannot be made secure. Literally cannot. > It

cvsweb

2001-05-29 Thread laurent parenteau
Hi, I've installed both CvsNT and Cvsweb for NT and ActivePerl on a win2000 box (I prefer linux, but it's not my computer so...!!) CvsNT work well, as Perl do, but Cvsweb for NT don't... all the installation worked well, but when I tried to access it, the only page that I seen

Re: About CVS edit-c.diff...

2001-05-29 Thread Noel L Yap
>I visited there but after your first letter. But it was probably due my >illitteracy or alike that I couldn't connect RCVS (project that was >marked to be in "planning" state) to your patches. BTW. What is/will be >the difference between RCVS sources and sources in cvshome.org? RCVS >seemed to h

Re: login problems - problem details given clearly

2001-05-29 Thread Larry Jones
David Zaroski writes: > > Create file 'cvspserver' in '/etc/xinetd.d' (containing the following): > > service cvspserver > { > flags = REUSE NAMEINARGS > socket_type = stream > protocol= tcp > wait= no > user= root > serve

Re: Asking for help!

2001-05-29 Thread Larry Jones
ÁõÐÂÄþ writes: > > the config on the file "inetd.conf": > "cvsserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs -f --allow-=/home/users/cvsroot >pserver" You should have "cvspserver" instead of "cvsserver" and "--allow-root" instead of "--allow-". > the config on the file "services": > "cvsserver

Re: make check fails on redhat 6.2

2001-05-29 Thread Larry Jones
Manik Bafna writes: > > Ok, I'm attaching the log. I compiled with the following options > ./configure --without-gssapi --without-krb4 [...] > > revision 1.1 > date: 2034/12/25 12:31:00; author: manik; state: Exp; Either your "touch" command is broken or you live s

Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Mark wrote: > I think a good explaination of how to run pserver as a non-root > user would be good to have in the CVS manual. Like Larry said, as long as all the CVS users in CVSROOT/passwd map to the same user that the CVS binary is running as, things should work. Documentation patches happily

Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
"Thornley, David" wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:48 PM > > To: Mark > > Cc: CVS Mailing List > > Subject: Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS > > > > > > The problem is that pserver cannot

Re: login problems - problem details given clearly

2001-05-29 Thread David Zaroski
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Larry Jones wrote: LJ>David Zaroski writes: LJ>> LJ>> Create file 'cvspserver' in '/etc/xinetd.d' (containing the following): LJ>> LJ>> service cvspserver LJ>> { LJ>> flags = REUSE NAMEINARGS LJ>> socket_type = stream LJ>> protocol= tcp LJ>>

Re: Accessing CVS from a remote machine

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Bekai wrote: > I am new to both linux and CVS and have the task of setting CVS up on a > linux box so that it can host our projects. > I installed Red Hat 7.0 and was able to import , checkout locally, but > when I try to access it from a windows or Mac client, I get the > following error messag

Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
"Greg A. Woods" wrote: > [ On Saturday, May 26, 2001 at 03:07:20 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS > > > > Greg A. Woods writes: > > > > > > So, if you don't have root access then how the heck do you propose to > > > implement CVS Pserver?

Re: Windows command line

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
"Arlene Govender@iCommerce" wrote: > Hi > > Can someone please help me. We have cvs lying on a UNIX box. We need to > check in and check out from inside Siebel which is lying on a NT machine. > Can someone please help me with the WindowsNT Command lines that are needed > to access, check in, chec

CVS/RCS notion of "state"

2001-05-29 Thread cmedcoff
It is my understanding that CVS supports the RCS notion of "state".  In other words a developer can mark a source file as being in a particular state such as "Exp(erimental)" or "Rel(eased)".  This is done using the following command.   cvs admin -sRel myfile.txt.   My question is how can one

Re: CVS/RCS notion of "state"

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is my understanding that CVS supports the RCS notion of "state". > In other words a developer can mark a source file as being in a > particular state such as "Exp(erimental)" or "Rel(eased)". This is > done using the following command. cvs admin -sRel myfile.txt. My

RE: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, May 29, 2001 at 09:18:33 (-0500), Thornley, David wrote: ] > Subject: RE: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS > > Any problems with running pserver over an encrypted channel? It seems to > met that would be just as secure as ssh access (and, of course, just as > unsafe - th

Re: CVS/RCS notion of "state"

2001-05-29 Thread cmedcoff
> You should be able to mimic this using tags though. Tag releases with > one tag, keep experimental versions on a branch or vice versa. Read the > sections of the manual on http://cvshome.org on tags and branches and if Gosh this seems overkill for such a "seemingly" simple feature. I don't u

Re: CVS/RCS notion of "state"

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You should be able to mimic this using tags though. Tag releases with > > one tag, keep experimental versions on a branch or vice versa. Read the > > sections of the manual on http://cvshome.org on tags and branches and if > > Gosh this seems overkill for such a "se

[Newbie Question] Flag records

2001-05-29 Thread David A. Cobb
I understand from reading here that CVS includes all of RCS, in one way or another. Are lines such as " $ID$ something " and "$DATE$ something" features of RCS? And how do they get there in the first place? David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate, All around nice guy. Get my P

[Newbie question] When LOGIN fails

2001-05-29 Thread David A. Cobb
Today I was working with a repository at the other end of an SSH tunnel. My CVS LOGIN was rejected: "server denied access to ${CVSROOT}" However, while experimenting with Xemacs/PCL-CVS I requested to STATUS, and then to UPDATE my directories. Both functions apparently worked. Does this indica

cvs add filename error

2001-05-29 Thread sandra humphrey
I am trying to add a new file to a repository with the following command: cvs add filename. It is returning the error: cvs add win.ini cvs add: in directory .: cvs [add aborted]: there is no version here; do 'cvs checkout' first This is a brand new repository and a new file. __

Re: how to 'lock down' a branch?

2001-05-29 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
Ah! well - to prevent users from mistakenly doing checkins to a branch, along which you do not want any development to happen. This happens especially in large, geographically distributed teams when people tend to forget that checkins are not permitted along certain branches for various reasons -

Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, May 29, 2001 at 13:59:09 (-0400), Derek R. Price wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS > > > Yeah, and there's "nc -l" too. But is either going to work in a > > production environment in a development shop? I doubt it > > Why not? One problem is

removing a tag

2001-05-29 Thread Todd Mortensen
What is the cleanest method to remove a newly created tag totally from a repository. Is this where I would use the -o option. The documentation stresses a lot of warning not to use this command unless you totally know what you are doing. Thanks. Todd G. Mortensen

Re: removing a tag

2001-05-29 Thread Larry Jones
Todd Mortensen writes: > > What is the cleanest method to remove a newly created tag totally from a > repository. tag -d > Is this where I would use the -o option. No. admin -o removes *revisons*, not tags. -Larry Jones Monopoly is more fun when you make your own Chance cards. -- Calvi

Release notes out of CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Anette Van Aswegen
Hi I would like to know whether there a facility exists within CVS from where I can retrieve a release note after we have released a new version. How would CVS know which version was released to a client? Thank you Anette van Aswegen ___ Info-cvs mai

Re: Windows 2000

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Bill May wrote: > Is CVS supported on Windows 2000 Um, noone has contributed any Win32 binaries lately, but I think it usually still keeps working through bug reports even if you have to compile it yourself. You might encounter bugs a little more often since some of the case-insensitivity stuff