chrooted cvs thru ssh

2004-02-09 Thread Keyser Soze
I followed the ideas presented in http://www.idealx.org/prj/idx-chrooted-ssh-cvs/dist/chrooted-ssh-cvs-server.html by using the scripts at http://www.informatimago.com/linux/chrooted-ssh-cvs. It looks like this will work well but I have one question: Is it possible to have a single user access t

file locking

2004-02-09 Thread Purushotham Komaravolu
Hi all, Can anybody tell me how to lock a file in CVS especially binary files. I have CVS server on a redhat linux server, where as clients are on WINNT. Thanks Regards, Puru ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.

Re: Possible race in pserver leading to broken pipe error?

2004-02-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:31:07PM -0500, Larry Jones wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: >> >> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=24253 >> >> They had a similar problem with the Debian package, and the patch >> listed on that page seems to fix it for them. >> >> Thoughts? > >My

Re: Possible race in pserver leading to broken pipe error?

2004-02-09 Thread Larry Jones
Steve McIntyre writes: > > http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=24253 > > They had a similar problem with the Debian package, and the patch > listed on that page seems to fix it for them. > > Thoughts? My first impression is that it seems reasonable, but I'll have to give it

Possible race in pserver leading to broken pipe error?

2004-02-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Initially sent to bug-cvs, but as other people have said, that seems to be dead atm... ] I've had this pointed out to me by a Debian user: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=24253 They had a similar problem with the Debian package, and the patch listed on that page seems

Re: Product management with CVS

2004-02-09 Thread Matthew Doar
I would not use branches for this, My approach would be to have one directory for the product files, and then one directory for each customization. e.g. my_top/product my_top/custom1 my_top/custom2 ... Then use modules (look up ampersand modules) so that you can say cvs co foo and foo expand

Re: server flow control option / my sig 11 problem last month

2004-02-09 Thread Larry Jones
Andy Jones writes: > > So it would appear that I had flow control turned on and it did not help? Correct. > My (ignorant) reading of the flow control description in INSTALL > suggested that it might stop a memory overrun. > Does that mean that there are circumstances where flow control doesn't?

Re: Stable CVS Version 1.11.12 Released!

2004-02-09 Thread Tom Copeland
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 20:01, Derek Robert Price wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stable CVS 1.11.12 has been released. Stable releases contain only bug > fixes from previous versions of CVS. This release fixes a lot of bugs, > including a bug that can crash CVS server

Re: server flow control option / my sig 11 problem last month

2004-02-09 Thread Andy Jones
Thanks for the explanations. >I would have thought the first sentence made that clear: ::grin:: it did, but later sentences made it less clear... >As far as I remember, the concensus was that you had run out of >(virtual) memory on the server machine. CVS does its best to detect >that condition

Re: server flow control option / my sig 11 problem last month

2004-02-09 Thread Larry Jones
Andy Jones writes [in very long lines]: > > 1) Can anyone clarify what the default is regarding the server flow > control ./configure option? It is enabled by default, with a low-water mark of 1M and a high-water mark of 2M. > The INSTALL readme seems to say I should either turn it on or turn it

Product management with CVS

2004-02-09 Thread Nicolas . ng . Gauthier
Hi there, I have the following situation which I guess is a basic one, and I wonder which usage of CVS is the most appropriate before to take actions. - I manage a product including mainly java files, + some binaries - many projects are (and will be) 'clients' of this product - project specific d

server flow control option / my sig 11 problem last month

2004-02-09 Thread Andy Jones
1) Can anyone clarify what the default is regarding the server flow control ./configure option? The INSTALL readme seems to say I should either turn it on or turn it off, but not what happens if I do neither. 2) Does anyone have an opinion they would like to share regarding the effect of this