RE: twisted CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Noel Yap
--- Piet Verhoeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the chgrp option to set the access control at commit time. This works quite well, however there seems to be a slight problem I didn't solve yet. When developers use cvs edit or watches, the system creates a directory CVS with a file

RE: twisted CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Noel Yap
--- Piet Verhoeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thanks for the tip, however it doesn't seem to work. I did set the SGID bit (chmod -R uga+g /dev ) on all directories. The command I'm familiar with is find $CVSROOT -type d | xargs chmod g+s. I don't know what system you have so man chmod to

Re: twisted CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Mark
--- Brandon Brinkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Can CVS be made more hack-proof (e.g. owner permissions on RCS files in the CVSROOT)? create a pserver account, a cvs admin account, a cvsrepo group and put only those two accounts in that group. run pserver as the non-root pserver account,

Re: twisted CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Noel Yap
--- Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Brandon Brinkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Can CVS be made more hack-proof (e.g. owner permissions on RCS files in the CVSROOT)? create a pserver account, a cvs admin account, a cvsrepo group and put only those two accounts in that group. run

Re: twisted CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Mark
--- Noel Yap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? From my experience, there is no maintenance of the SGID bit -- just set it and forget it (can I be sued for using this phrase? :-) I prefer users not have write access to the physical repository filesystem or have the repository dictate

Re: migrate some project from ClearCase to CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Derek Robert Price
Zanabria, Moises wrote: Guys, we would like to move some project with the history from ClearCase to CVS and I'm wondering if there are some scripts or tools to make easy this action. please advise. Moises. You might try adapting the pvcs2rcs script distributed in the contrib directory of

Re: twisted CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Derek Robert Price
Noel Yap wrote: The command I'm familiar with is find $CVSROOT -type d | xargs chmod g+s. I don't know what system you have so man chmod to make sure you're doing the right thing. In any case, I have two comments on the command above: 1. chmod -R will chmod files as well as directories. In

FW: Checking a repository for corruption.

2002-08-14 Thread Calbazana, Al
Hello, I am interested in something similar to run as part of a cron job before repository backups. I copied the script out and ran it. I received the following output: List of Files That Don't belong in Repository: File: CVSROOT/verifymsg File: CVSROOT/config

Re: twisted CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Noel Yap
--- Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Noel Yap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? From my experience, there is no maintenance of the SGID bit -- just set it and forget it (can I be sued for using this phrase? :-) I prefer users not have write access to the physical repository

Re: twisted CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Noel Yap
--- Derek Robert Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might have major impact if any of the repository files are executable and also owned by the root group. Say, if someone copied the repository in as the root user, then changed the owner to their cvs user and left the file groups alone.

FW: How do I run cvs as server on Win2K?

2002-08-14 Thread Cummings, Charles (Debt Markets Technology)
Thanks, Anders - I've updated cvs.exe to 1.11.2 - I believe that's the latest. At any rate, I still get the behavior described below. Is there any configuration above and beyond what I did to get it to work from the command line? It seems to me that since there is a port and hostname, there

RE: Unknown user error?

2002-08-14 Thread Steven Buroff
Thanks. Could you please send mail when a fixed binary is available? Thanks much for the help. Steve -Original Message- From: Derek Robert Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tim Buck Subject: Re: Unknown

FW: How do I run cvs as server on Win2K?

2002-08-14 Thread Cummings, Charles (Debt Markets Technology)
Please ignore last post! I was looking at the wrong cvs product - as Anders indicated, cvsnt is what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, due to security I cannot download files with .exe extensions - is there an ftp site where I can download the below mentioned version from, or somewhere with a

RE: migrate some project from ClearCase to CVS

2002-08-14 Thread Zanabria, Moises
ok, I'll try, thanks for all the help. Moises. -Original Message- From: Piet Verhoeve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 8:56 AM To: 'Derek Robert Price'; 'Zanabria, Moises' Subject: RE: migrate some project from ClearCase to CVS Hi, Keep in mind that most

Re: FW: Checking a repository for corruption.

2002-08-14 Thread Derek Robert Price
Calbazana, Al wrote: Hello, I am interested in something similar to run as part of a cron job before repository backups. I copied the script out and ran it. I received the following output: List of Files That Don't belong in Repository: File: CVSROOT/verifymsg

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-14 Thread Larry Jones
Mike Ayers writes: So if you are using CVS properly, the CVSROOT env var never comes into play. I think you're overstating the case. Most people just use a single repository and even people who use multiple repositories usually have one repository that they use more often than

Re: FW: Checking a repository for corruption.

2002-08-14 Thread Larry Jones
Calbazana, Al writes: I am interested in something similar to run as part of a cron job before repository backups. I copied the script out and ran it. I received the following output: List of Files That Don't belong in Repository: File: CVSROOT/verifymsg File:

File Corruption Problem on Unix

2002-08-14 Thread Brian Robinson
Has anyone experienced or heard of the following problem: - First we are running CVS 1.11 on Solaris 2.8 - Desktop checkin/checkout through WinCVS works great - Unix checkin/checkout results in problems that show up as file corruption on a machine reboot. We're trying to pinpoint the commands

Re: File Corruption Problem on Unix

2002-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:27:52PM -0400, Brian Robinson wrote: Has anyone experienced or heard of the following problem: - First we are running CVS 1.11 on Solaris 2.8 - Desktop checkin/checkout through WinCVS works great - Unix checkin/checkout results in problems that show up as file

Re: File Corruption Problem on Unix

2002-08-14 Thread Brian Robinson
This doesn't sound like a CVS problem. What you describe is extremely typical of what happens when a UNIX system crashes while some program is actively creating or deleting files. It just happens that CVS does a lot of that, so it's not surprising that many of the damaged files have CVS's

Re: File Corruption Problem on Unix

2002-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0400, Brian Robinson wrote: Why is the machine rebooting? Is someone doing it on purpose, or is it crashing? If the latter, well, it shouldn't be; fixing that will solve the supposed CVS problem too. Agreed. In this case, we had a power failure in the

RE: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-14 Thread Albin Takami
-Original Message- From: Mike Ayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading Albin Takami wrote: -Original Message- From: