Re: Use of CVS on large scales

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:40:35AM +1000, Lucas Chan wrote: > Something like... a case study of a large software company using CVS would > be pefect (I imagine). Hmmm... let's see... Perhap's he's heard of Netscape? (think mozilla.org). HP uses it (Example, look for the book Practical Software

Re: Info-cvs digest, Vol 1 #603 - 14 msgs

2001-06-07 Thread Ron Smith
And the pieces all finally come together. That last bit helped us figure out the problem. You are correct: they are on different network segments so, the question was: why was it translating the address that I entered (which is on my network segment) to an address on the other network seg

F-ssh and cvs checkout - cannot start server via rsh

2001-06-07 Thread Ning Zhu
Hello, I have just downloaded WinCvs 1.2 and installed it on my Windows 2000 box. Whenever I start up WinCvs, I get "TCL is *not* available, shell is disabled". It seems that TCL is needed in order for WinCvs micros to work. So I downloaded an ActiveTcl 8.3.3 package from the link that cvsgui

Re: adding user with passwd file

2001-06-07 Thread Peter Ajamian
Rob Davies wrote: > > Hi > > Sorry if this isn't directed towards the correct mailing list. I'm having a > problem setting up a new user, using the file 'passwd'. If anyone can offer > any suggestions/help it would be greatly appreciated. > > I have created the file 'passwd' and added the line

RE: can't commit! permissions question

2001-06-07 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
I've included two examples below complete with error messages. The first is me logged into cvs as user cvsadmin in the cvsgrp group. There are two modules: rat and DEV. The second example is me logged in as user jschwenk in the users group. Unfortunately, I did not set up the initial reposit

Use of CVS on large scales

2001-06-07 Thread Lucas Chan
Guys, We are currently looking at implementing some kind of version control system. We have been trialling CVS for the past few weeks, storing sources on a FreeBSD machine and using WinCVS on our development machines. It seems that this is exactly what we're looking for. I have struck a proble

Re: Wrong timezone.

2001-06-07 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 17:54 +0100, Kris Thielemans wrote: > > I'm bewildered by the reactions on Karsten's mail. Maybe it is > because he doesn't really say what his setup is. It could as well be because it's been a FAQ and has been discussed to death a few thousand times. Searching the archi

Re: Use of CVS on large scales

2001-06-07 Thread John Minnihan
I have been in business computing for 19 years, and in the software development management space for 6+ years. I have seen, implemented, used, and/or supported: RCS CVS Freepository Wincvs jCVS tkCVS Clearcase (base and UCM) Visual Sourcesafe PVCS Version Manager, Tracker and Builder MKS Source

Re: Info-cvs digest, Vol 1 #603 - 14 msgs

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Ron Smith writes: > > Ok, I just tried that and I can telnet to that port. Here's what I got: > > [localhost:~/Projects] ron% telnet 1.2.1.41 2401 > Trying 1.2.1.41... > Connected to 1.2.1.41. > Escape character is '^]'. > ? <--- I typed this and pressed enter > cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth

RE: Assert Failure: cvs: lock.c:173: lock_name: Assertion `strncmp (r

2001-06-07 Thread Nesbitt, Steve
Title: RE: Assert Failure: cvs: lock.c:173: lock_name: Assertion `strncmp (r All: Thanks - I suspected it was something like this, but wasn't sure. -steve Steve Nesbitt Configuration Manager The Cobalt Group, Inc. 2200 First Avenue South Seattle, WA 98134 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cobaltgroup.

Re: Remote connection fails with Operation timed out.

2001-06-07 Thread Ron Smith
Well, yes. There is a firewall between here and the server but that port is open because I can perform the exact same CVS command from the machine right beside me. I have compared network settings on the two machines and there is nothing unusual there that I can find. I think you are correct

Re: Info-cvs digest, Vol 1 #603 - 14 msgs

2001-06-07 Thread Ron Smith
Ok, I just tried that and I can telnet to that port. Here's what I got: [localhost:~/Projects] ron% telnet 1.2.1.41 2401 Trying 1.2.1.41... Connected to 1.2.1.41. Escape character is '^]'. ? <--- I typed this and pressed enter cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start: ? Connection closed

Re: IPv6

2001-06-07 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:50 +0900, KOIE Hidetaka wrote: > > There is a bit of problem. > IPv6 address representation is colon-separated hex. > This conflicts with CVSROOT. How about using symbolic DNS names? They're memorizable, can represent different IPs at different times (after moving a r

Re: Help is appreciated

2001-06-07 Thread Matthew Riechers
"Datla, Raghav" wrote: > > Hi, > I have a small clarification regarding the CVS.I am able to conigure CVS > as client/server model in unix environment.I am not able to install the > software on windows client. > Actually i found software for windows in cvshome.org and after unzipping its > jus

Re: Remote connection fails with Operation timed out.

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Helmer
Hmm.. good point. I guess I skimmed the original message ;) Firewall is a likely culprit. -- Rob Helmer Namodn On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:57:59PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: > Rob Helmer writes: > > > > Try telnetting to port 2401. It looks like inetd isn't > > listening on that port. > > Go

Re: Remote connection fails with Operation timed out.

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Rob Helmer writes: > > Try telnetting to port 2401. It looks like inetd isn't > listening on that port. Good advice, but bad analysis -- if inetd wasn't listening you'd get connection refused, not a timeout. -Larry Jones What this games needs are negotiated settlements. -- Calvin ___

Re: strange line in CVSROOT/commitlog

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Paul MacAdam writes: > > Since I have a :pserver setup, under which all processes run > as system user "cvs" and the entire repository is owned by user "cvs," > I probably should NOT use LockDir. Would you agree? Not that it's bad -- > there's just no real advantage That's generally correct. A

Re: directoryinfo?

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Gwen Park writes: > > Is there any sort of trigger for adding directories to the repository? Unfortunately, no. -Larry Jones I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: can't commit! permissions question

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Schwenk, Jeanie writes: > > Who is supposed to be the owner of the files that are in the respository? I > can update and checkout but not commit. Exactly what error messageare you getting? In general, you need read access to the files and write access to the directory. Files are owned by the

Re: Remote connection fails with Operation timed out.

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Ron Smith writes: > > At 11:31 AM -0400 6/7/01, Larry Jones wrote: > >Ron Smith writes: > >> > >> cvs [login aborted]: connect to ga01db03(1.2.2.21):2401 failed: > >> Operation timed out > > > >Looks to me like you've got a network problem on the client machine. > >I suspect that telnet to the

Re: adding user with passwd file

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Rob Davies writes: > > Sorry if this isn't directed towards the correct mailing list. I'm having a > problem setting up a new user, using the file 'passwd'. If anyone can offer > any suggestions/help it would be greatly appreciated. Right list, hard to help -- you've "sanitized" your report to

Re: Problem during Commit

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
=?iso-8859-1?q?Manish=20Koolwal?= writes: > > I am using pserver method for accessing remote repository. I am > logged in as some xyz user other than root. Everything works > fine. But when I try to commit the changes, I get an error > saying - cannot commit as root. The thing is that I am not r

Help is appreciated

2001-06-07 Thread Datla, Raghav
Hi, I have a small clarification regarding the CVS.I am able to conigure CVS as client/server model in unix environment.I am not able to install the software on windows client. Actually i found software for windows in cvshome.org and after unzipping its just giving me two files life cvs1-11.exe

Re: Remote connection fails with Operation timed out.

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Helmer
Try telnetting to port 2401. It looks like inetd isn't listening on that port. HTH, Rob Helmer On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:09:25PM -0500, Ron Smith wrote: > Nope, I can telnet to the machine just fine -- I can even run CVS > locally on that machine just fine. > > At 11:31 AM -0400 6/7/01, La

Re: Hey all

2001-06-07 Thread Matthew Riechers
>can I interface Visual Studio 6.0 with CVS? http://www.cvshome.org/dev/addons.html Igloo seems to be missing from the list, but works well: http://www.jalindi.com/igloo >can I access a CVS repository on a Linux machine from a Win2K machine? http://www.wincvs.org/ -Matt

Re: Remote connection fails with Operation timed out.

2001-06-07 Thread Ron Smith
Nope, I can telnet to the machine just fine -- I can even run CVS locally on that machine just fine. At 11:31 AM -0400 6/7/01, Larry Jones wrote: >Ron Smith writes: >> >> cvs [login aborted]: connect to ga01db03(1.2.2.21):2401 failed: >> Operation timed out > >Looks to me like you've got a net

RE: Wrong timezone.

2001-06-07 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi, I'm bewildered by the reactions on Karsten's mail. Maybe it is because he doesn't really say what his setup is. In any case, I'd fully expect that NT gets the right time from the CVS, whatever its timezone, and wherever the server is. This of course requires that both the NT workstation and

can't commit! permissions question

2001-06-07 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
Who is supposed to be the owner of the files that are in the respository? I can update and checkout but not commit. Obviously the permissions are wrong somewhere. I've been looking in the OpenSourceDevelopment with CVS by Fogel and in the Cederqvist but I must conclude I've just not run across

directoryinfo?

2001-06-07 Thread Gwen Park
Hi, Is there any sort of trigger for adding directories to the repository? I'm looking for something along the lines of the other .*info files in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT so that I can prevent directories with spaces from being added. Thank you. gwen ___ Inf

Re: Download documentation

2001-06-07 Thread John Daniel Doucette
Hi, The manual written by Per Cederqvist et al is the "bible" for CVS. It can be downloaded via the documentation link at this site which also has other good info about CVS. http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html Another excellent reference was written by Karl Fogel. While you can purch

Re: strange line in CVSROOT/commitlog

2001-06-07 Thread Paul MacAdam
Thank you very much. That cleared it up. Since I have a :pserver setup, under which all processes run as system user "cvs" and the entire repository is owned by user "cvs," I probably should NOT use LockDir. Would you agree? Not that it's bad -- there's just no real advantage (unless setting Lock

Hey all

2001-06-07 Thread Matt Keyes
Glad I found this software.   Here’s my situation… I recently came across a free Pentium 233 server (one of 3dfx’s old machines).  I’m planning on putting Linux (probably Redhat) on it as well as on another P233 machine I have.  One will be an FTP/Web server, the other I’m hoping to turn

Re: Wrong timezone.

2001-06-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Marbaise
Hi Karsten, > Each time I commit a file, the timestamp is 2 hours off (also shown in > wincvs). I guess it is because I am in the CET (GMT+1) and it is currently > daylight saving (+1 hour) for the summer. > > The clock on my NT machine is set correctly to the current timezone and > daylight sav

Re: Wrong timezone.

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Karsten Aarrebo Pedersen writes: > > Since I am not going to do multi timezone development, I would like cvs to > use the time Windows are using. > > Does anybody have a solution to this problem? Move to England or rewrite CVS. -Larry Jones I wonder if I can grow fangs when my baby teeth fall

Re: Spaces in directory or file names

2001-06-07 Thread Todd Denniston
Donald Sharp wrote: > > It seems to work for me when I just tried it.. > > Create a test repository and create a filename with a space in it > try different things with it. See if it works. > > donald well one thing it seems I can not do is use the directory as a module i.e. in the modules fil

RE: checkout/update bug?

2001-06-07 Thread Colby Allred
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Kris Thielemans wrote: > > - running the update/checkout as another user fails this test > > > > here you confuse me: what do you mean with "fails this test". That it works > properly or not? I just mean that this bug is not related to the fact that the same user is editi

Re: Remote connection fails with Operation timed out.

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Ron Smith writes: > > cvs [login aborted]: connect to ga01db03(1.2.2.21):2401 failed: > Operation timed out Looks to me like you've got a network problem on the client machine. I suspect that telnet to the server machine would also time out. -Larry Jones Girls are like slugs -- they probably

Re: Spaces in directory or file names

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Todd Denniston writes: > > What have been peoples experience with keeping code under CVS where either the > file and/or the directory names have spaces in them? I believe CVS proper handles them OK, but trying to use any of the administrative scripts (e.g., loginfo, taginfo, etc.) would almost c

Re: Prevention of tagging and branching

2001-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Shubhabrata Sengupta writes: > > This can be done easily by using a taginfo script - the operation > (add/delete/move) performed is passed to the script - the user can be > determined from the user who is running the script. I am assuming you are > using pserver mode and not using the CVS passwor

Re: Wrong timezone.

2001-06-07 Thread David Fuller
It sounds like you have to change the timezone your server is using. That would be dependent on what OS you are using, which you didn't mention the server configuration. -- David F. Karsten Aarrebo Pedersen wrote: > > I have installed cvs on a windows NT machine and have the following problem:

Wrong timezone.

2001-06-07 Thread Karsten Aarrebo Pedersen
I have installed cvs on a windows NT machine and have the following problem: Each time I commit a file, the timestamp is 2 hours off (also shown in wincvs). I guess it is because I am in the CET (GMT+1) and it is currently daylight saving (+1 hour) for the summer. The clock on my NT machine is s

Re: Spaces in directory or file names

2001-06-07 Thread Donald Sharp
It seems to work for me when I just tried it.. Create a test repository and create a filename with a space in it try different things with it. See if it works. donald On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:28:19AM -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > What have been peoples experience with keeping code under CVS

Re: IPv6

2001-06-07 Thread Donald Sharp
Is that the address or the hostname? donald On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:50:28PM +0900, KOIE Hidetaka wrote: > There is a bit of problem. > IPv6 address representation is colon-separated hex. > This conflicts with CVSROOT. > CVS may provide a quoting syntax. > > -- > KOIE Hidetaka <[EMAIL PROTEC

AW: Prevention of tagging and branching

2001-06-07 Thread Schell Walter
Hello Michael, >>Is there a chance to prevent the users (except for an cvs-administrator) from tagging and branching and especially from removing tags or branches? We all know wich problems can be caused by removing tags... Maybe there is a way to deactivate these methods in the client?<< have a

Spaces in directory or file names

2001-06-07 Thread Todd Denniston
What have been peoples experience with keeping code under CVS where either the file and/or the directory names have spaces in them? Will it work, or do I find my LART and apply it (or both)? What are the 'gotyas'? Yes the code I am about to import comes from a windows developer, I am trying to f

Re: Prevention of tagging and branching

2001-06-07 Thread Noel L Yap
If you really want to deactivate them, you would need to do it on the server side (or else what's to prevent the client from getting an executable with the features activated?). I don't use pserver so the following may not be possible. The way I'd try to do this would be to create a separate cvs

Re: Prevention of tagging and branching

2001-06-07 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
This can be done easily by using a taginfo script - the operation (add/delete/move) performed is passed to the script - the user can be determined from the user who is running the script. I am assuming you are using pserver mode and not using the CVS password file to map user ids. Thanks Shubho

adding user with passwd file

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Davies
Hi Sorry if this isn't directed towards the correct mailing list. I'm having a problem setting up a new user, using the file 'passwd'. If anyone can offer any suggestions/help it would be greatly appreciated. I have created the file 'passwd' and added the line : cvs_username::system_username

Prevention of tagging and branching

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Lukaschek
We use cvs on a Linux machine running pserver. We have WinCVS-clients to acces the repository. Is there a chance to prevent the users (except for an cvs-administrator) from tagging and branching and especially from removing tags or branches? We all know wich problems can be caused by removing tags

Re: Download documentation

2001-06-07 Thread Todd Denniston
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to download the CVS online manual > to be able to use it locally. > I mean the one you get on http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html > > I did not find it anywhere, even not in the complete > CVS distribution. > > Where can I get it? > > Kind

RE: Download documentation

2001-06-07 Thread Helliwell, Matthew
Or look at http://cvshome.org/docs/ for a link the PDF doc you can download. -Original Message- From: Karl-Heinz Marbaise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 June 2001 12:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Download documentation Hi there, > I would like to down

RE: checkout/update bug?

2001-06-07 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Colby Allred > Sent: 07 June 2001 01:01> > > I've submitted this to bug-cvs, but I thought I'd drop it here as well to > get some comments. Anyone run into this before? Anyone able to reproduce >

Re: Download documentation

2001-06-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Marbaise
Hi there, > I would like to download the CVS online manual > to be able to use it locally. > I mean the one you get on http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html > > I did not find it anywhere, even not in the complete > CVS distribution. Within the CVS distribution there is a file cvs.texinfo whic

Download documentation

2001-06-07 Thread anke.koelzer
Hi, I would like to download the CVS online manual to be able to use it locally. I mean the one you get on http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html I did not find it anywhere, even not in the complete CVS distribution. Where can I get it? Kind regards Anke Koelzer ___

Problem during Commit

2001-06-07 Thread Manish Koolwal
Hi! I am using pserver method for accessing remote repository. I am logged in as some xyz user other than root. Everything works fine. But when I try to commit the changes, I get an error saying - cannot commit as root. The thing is that I am not root but some other user. Why I am getting such a