Re: CVS on SSH

2004-09-13 Thread Geoff Beier
On 9/7/04 7:22 AM, Gaurav Vaish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you need to get the server to allow your ssh logins. But doesn't is leads to 'shell access' to the user? I do not want to allow direct console access but only cvs access. Similar to what SourceForge has. I didn't see any

Re: /#cvs.lock): No such file or directoryctory for some directory inrepository

2004-08-18 Thread Geoff Beier
Hi Jim, On 8/18/04 5:37 AM, Jim Page - emailsystems.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have expressed myself badly. Our developers are working on both windows and linux -at the same time-. Either with 2 dev boxes, or using VMware to run the other OS, with a partition shared between the 2.

Re: mobile CVS

2004-07-20 Thread Geoff Beier
On Jul 20, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Unfortunately, depending on whether I'm inside the network which contains the repository, or outside, I have to use different ssh settings. The machine name, as well as the used port change. I cannot access the repository server with the

Re: Two directories for one project or module

2004-06-21 Thread Geoff Beier
On Jun 20, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Adrian Constantin wrote: Does anyone has an ideea as how can I have the public directory kept clean, that is without the CVS subdirectory ? Can I move the CVS subdirectroy out of the sandbox ? I would need something like 'cvs release' but that would actually

Re: CVS access - IP restricted

2004-06-21 Thread Geoff Beier
can we anyhow restrict CVS access based on IP. Say like want to deny certain IP's to being connected to the CVS server (Linux sandbox). This question doesn't really have anything to do with the message you included, AFAICT... The best way to do this is to use features built in to your OS. For

Re: $CVSROOT/CVSROOT scripts

2004-06-21 Thread Geoff Beier
On Jun 21, 2004, at 1:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok what's the proper way of putting scripts into this directory that the cvs files can use. For example I want to call a buglog.sh file from the loginfo file. Do I - checkout the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT directory - cvs add buglog.sh file - modify

Re: Remote CVS access via SSH

2004-06-15 Thread Geoff Beier
On Jun 15, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Tom Copeland wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. This worked. However, instead of entering the password 100,000 times (every CVS command), I now have to enter the paraphrase 100,000 times (every CVS command.) Again as you know this is

Re: Cannot check in file after branch...?

2004-05-20 Thread Geoff Beier
On May 19, 2004, at 9:31 PM, Flossie wrote: I'm using TortoiseCVS and did not see what command it issued (nor do I want to learn various command-line args for controlling CVS actions) - I understand that feeling ;=) I haven't used TortoiseCVS - you might also try asking this question on a mail

Re: Personal CVS repository?

2004-05-06 Thread Geoff Beier
Hi Jill, It occurs to me, though, that maybe I could set up a personal CVS repository off my home directory (although I'll readily admit that I've never set up a CVS repository of *any* kind before); I would use it for my fine-grain version control, while submitting new, boss-approved stuff to the

Re: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSHaccount

2004-05-04 Thread Geoff Beier
On May 4, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Tim Grotenhuis wrote: b. through the SSH command= you can limit users to one command based on the key they are authenticating with. Or any command they can convince the program specified in command= to execute. If you go down this path, be very careful with how you

Re: RCS commit template

2004-04-19 Thread Geoff Beier
On Apr 19, 2004, at 7:06 PM, Fouts Christopher (6452) wrote: I followed the intructions in these pages, along with reading the manual to set up a commit template. However, I don't get my template when I do a commit. I have the permissions set up correctly too. What gives?

Re: RES: CVS import

2004-04-15 Thread Geoff Beier
On Apr 15, 2004, at 1:34 PM, McNamee, John wrote: flame heat=50% Unfortunately, the whole world doesn't run Unix... Unfortunately, OP did not identify his platform, so it seems reasonable to assume (since he's asking on this list) that he's either using UNIX or cygwin (which is the best way

Re: CVS/Entries..

2004-04-07 Thread Geoff Beier
I is a clean get / co task. I am getting it on a Windows 2000 system. Its not on a NFS or so. Also, this happens randomly on different systems - not everytime. The permissions are intact, the network login is the local administartor - to be more sure that this should not be the reason. It

cvs.spec(.in) is causing an error building rpms

2004-03-30 Thread Geoff Beier
Hi All, Has anyone else built 1.11.14 rpms using the spec file distributed with the source tarball? In 1.11.14, line 89 was added to cvs.spec.in: rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_infodir}/dir with the following comment in the changelog: * Tue Feb 17 2004 Derek Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Remove info

Re: cvs.spec(.in) is causing an error building rpms

2004-03-30 Thread Geoff Beier
Hi Tim, Thanks for the quick response! I normally use quoted-reply, but your multi-part message made that hard. Sorry about that. I normally don't post multi-part messages to the list, but seem to have fat fingers in my mailer today. - You can fix the spec by just adding || true to the end

Re: Read-only CVS over http

2004-03-22 Thread Geoff Beier
Ed Avis wrote: If a CVS repository is available via http (for example http://membled.com/cvsroot/) can CVS connect to it for read-only checkouts? cvsgrab can, if you can install viewcvs: http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/ hth, Geoff ___ Info-cvs mailing

Re: Finding out which tags exist

2004-03-19 Thread Geoff Beier
Larry Jones wrote: The info page still says that I need a repository and a working directory for the log command. You do. (What info page? Do you mean the man page?) Isn't the GNU texinfo-formatted documentation in the doc directory generally referred to as the info page? It's what's

Re: Finding out which tags exist

2004-03-19 Thread Geoff Beier
Derek Robert Price wrote: If you have a binary GNU info installed but your local CVS manual isn't installed correctly, and you have a copy of the CVS source handy, you can access the info manual like so: info --directory=cvs-1.11.14/src --file=cvs.info With my build you have to do: info

Re: changes between tags

2004-03-01 Thread Geoff Beier
Florian Pachaly wrote: is there any easy way to get all changes made in a whole module between two tags? Is there any way that cvs rdiff -rTag1 -rTag2 module doesn't do what you want? http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.13/cvs_16.html#SEC145 HTH, Geoff

Re: WinCVS and single-digit day of month

2004-02-27 Thread Geoff Beier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using WinCVS on Win2000 with working directory on Samba (mounted as drive Z:) and CVS server on Unix (SunOS). [SNIP] Any ideas of how to solve this problem without modifying CVS or WinCVS? Don't use a working directory on a network drive. Especially not a drive

Re: [OFT] scripting removal of $Id:

2004-02-20 Thread Geoff Beier
Euan Guttridge wrote: Has anybody come across a shell script to parse a large number of text files, removing the CVS keyword replacement lines (all containing $Id:)? It's not a shell script, but is the -kk option to checkout or export good enough for you? It doesn't remove the whole line (a bad

Re: how to support symlinks?

2004-02-18 Thread Geoff Beier
Robert P. J. Day wrote: meta-cvs is not a possible solution, since we need web-page access to the repository as well, and as i read it, meta-cvs doesn't handle that. and it's not like i'm going to adopt an entirely new tool just for something as trivial as symlinks. symlinks. that's all i want.

Re: Cannot connect to remote CVS server

2004-02-17 Thread Geoff Beier
John Nichel wrote: CVSROOT is set to /webserver/vhosts with these lines in /etc/profile... CVSROOT=/webserver/vhosts export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC CVSROOT Echoing out CVSROOT return this... [EMAIL PROTECTED] CVSROOT]# echo $CVSROOT /webserver/vhosts The xinetd

Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?

2004-01-20 Thread Geoff Beier
Andy Jones wrote: Tirsdag den 20. januar 2004 09:33 skrev Greg A. Woods: [ On Monday, January 19, 2004 at 15:43:35 (-0800), Mark wrote: ] Subject: Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository? have unix command line users use :pserver: That's really Really REALLY _B_A_D_

Re: Stable CVS Version 1.11.11 Released! strong(security update)/strong

2003-12-19 Thread Geoff Beier
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:48:47AM -0500, Tom Copeland wrote: Just wondering if you've had a chance to put together the source RPMs yet... While you're waiting, it's easy to make your own from the source tarball, since the tarball includes an RPM specification. 1. If you've never constructed

Re: cvs checkout

2003-12-15 Thread Geoff Beier
On Dec 15, 2003, at 8:15 AM, Florian Pachaly wrote: On my new machine, a 3 GBit P4 I get very often errors on checkouts: cvs [update aborted]: cannot rename file _new_generate.bat to generate.bat: Bad address I try to checkout existing modules from existing repositorys, and I'm correctly

Re: Installing the new version

2003-12-11 Thread Geoff Beier
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:18:12PM +, Andy Jones wrote: But I still don't know if there was anything wrong with the RPM I tried to install... If the md5sum matches the value on the cvshome.org webpage, there is nothing wrong with the RPM. I used that one myself. Here's how to check: $

Re: best windows client?

2003-12-09 Thread Geoff Beier
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:56:31AM -0500, Phil Labonte wrote: I have CVS setup on a Linux server. I have several Windows clients that are using WinCVS... I have done some searching and nothing else really comes up for Windows Is that the best client to use? Specifically what I am

Re: CVS working directories on FAT

2003-12-08 Thread Geoff Beier
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:46:02PM -0500, Braden McDaniel wrote: I was hoping to be able to share CVS working directories between boots to Linux and Windows by putting them on a FAT partition. However, I'm running into the problem that case is not preserved for file names not longer than 8

Re: Format for the 'loginfo' file for log_accum.pl commit_prep?

2003-12-05 Thread Geoff Beier
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:47:08PM -0800, Peter Connolly wrote: I can't find any reference to the loginfo file format or to a sample of that file in the contrib directories. I need to know because when I use our company's old format (circa 1.11.1p) for the loginfo file, the new log_accum.pl

Re: Auth using PAM

2003-12-02 Thread Geoff Beier
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:58:36AM -0600, Cary Coulter wrote: I have tried ssh. It does work, will auth throuch pam_smb_auth using NT passwords, not Unix ones. However, I do experience a significant delay when invoking CVS for ssh authorization (shows on the WSAD dialog box). The delay

Re: Help! 30 second delay on every command going thru pserver!?

2003-11-14 Thread Geoff Beier
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:20:56 +0100, Andreas Rehn wrote CVS Command: D:\Work\Development\mecp\mwafcvs -t log build.xml - main loop with CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs/repository - Connecting to brink(217.212.21.5):2401 Is this the point where the delay occurs? If so,

Re: Checkout with \r's

2003-11-12 Thread Geoff Beier
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:40:59 -0800, Jim wrote How can I check out a file on Linux with \r's ? As part of a build process I use a SHA1 of the source as part of the versioning information. The same code on both windows and linux should generate the same SHA1. You need to normalize your text

Re: cvs user statistics

2003-11-11 Thread Geoff Beier
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:13:29 +0100, Wim Bertels wrote This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't send MIME or HTML email to the mailing list. It's not nice! is there a good way to obtain (/report) user statistics, (these user are cvs users), like for example: alfred worked for

Re: CVS Merge Issue

2003-11-11 Thread Geoff Beier
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:40:13 -0500, Patwardhan, Rajesh wrote Hello All, A file was added on a branch, and now I am unable to add it on the trunk or on any other branch. Just merge it like you would any other changes you made on the branch:

Re: Broken pipe with loginfo in a chroot jail

2003-11-07 Thread Geoff Beier
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:05:10 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote Sorry if this is a silly question, but have you put a shell in your jail? http://tiefighter.et.tudelft.nl/~arthur/cvsd/faq.html#cvsscripts No, I haven't, but why would I? What I execute from loginfo is a standalone application, it

RE: Broken pipe with loginfo in a chroot jail

2003-11-07 Thread Geoff Beier
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:28:57 -0500 , Jim.Hyslop wrote OK, here's an even sillier question - what is a chroot jail? It's a means of restricting the operations of an application (on UNIX-like systems) to a particular area of a disk. Here's a pretty good explanation:

Re: Broken pipe with loginfo in a chroot jail

2003-11-07 Thread Geoff Beier
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:50:32 +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote Notice that the invoking the shell part is not optional. Therefore, to use popen() in a chroot jail (which is required for loginfo) you require a shell. Ah. That would explain a lot... Which shell would that be? /bin/sh? Having a

Re: Broken pipe with loginfo in a chroot jail

2003-11-06 Thread Geoff Beier
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 00:13:48 + (UTC), Maarten De Boer wrote Most likely, the problem is that some command your script uses doesn't exist in your chroot jail -- perhaps even the script's interpreter. I'd It's not a script, it's a small executable - written in c. Sorry if this is a

Re: All files reported as modified

2003-10-15 Thread Geoff Beier
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:13:09 -0400, Daniel Bron wrote I'm using the WinCVS client (from http://www.wincvs.org), and the problem I'm having is that all files I get from CVS are always reported as modified. When I do a query-update no changes are reported. This occurs even if I completely

Re: remote cvs access - recommendations

2003-10-07 Thread Geoff Beier
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:29:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote hi all, i've read about remote cvs access, and there are a LOT of options: ssh, rsh, kerberos, pserver, and more. my needs are simple. i'm writing a latex book with just one other person. the repository is sitting on a debian

Re: FW: Mac CVS Error.

2003-09-11 Thread Geoff Beier
Hi Guys, Can somebody suggest me solution to this problem or the forum where I can put this query ... Thanx in anticipation . Try the cvsgui mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/cvsgui or look at docs here: http://www.wincvs.org/ HTH, Geoff

Re: Developing a secure CVS repository

2003-08-27 Thread Geoff Beier
We have a client/server environment using ssh. Our Operation Team is recommending that we move to a network-secure CVS server based on SSH and chroot. I have seen many questions and discussions on this forum regarding pserver, but I have never seen anything on chroot. Does anyone have

Re: waiting for user's lock when there does not appear to be any

2003-08-22 Thread Geoff Beier
Please ignore me today. Immediately after sending this message, I found a directory called CVS-locks just above my CVSROOT. The lock was there and has been removed. Sorry for the noise. Geoff -- Original Message --- From: Geoff Beier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

waiting for user's lock when there does not appear to be any

2003-08-21 Thread Geoff Beier
Hi All, Please forgive me if this seems like an FAQ; the answers I turned up in the manual and in the list archives haven't worked, and I'm completely stumped here. Whenever I attempt to access a particular directory in our repository, I get the following message: cvs checkout: [11:13:24]

Re: info about redhat Question about exporting CVSROOT

2003-07-17 Thread Geoff Beier
Hi Thom, Just curious Geoff, why is it a bad idea to build as the superuser? Is it something specific to the CVS build, or just generally a good policy? It's nothing specific to the CVS build; it's just not a good idea to build *anything* as the superuser. (A good general rule is to perform

Re: info about redhat

2003-07-15 Thread Geoff Beier
Mark D. Baushke wrote: You may build your own from sources: Fetch a copy of the .src.rpm file from the downloads page: http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList and then rebuild it with the following commands: sudo rpm --rebuild cvs-1.11.6-cvshome.org.1.src.rpm sudo rpm -Fvh

Re: WinCvs and proxies

2003-03-22 Thread Geoff Beier
Kyle Adams wrote: Not sure if this is the right list for a WinCvs focused question, but I didn't see any obvious links for lists off of wincvs.org, or the accompanying sourceforge site. Feel free to point out the correct avenue of inquiry, if a better one exists. This is not the best list for

Re: Where is WinCVS?

2003-02-11 Thread Geoff Beier
Pat Young wrote: Does anyone know where the WinCVS Web site is? I try to go to wincvs.org and end up at a domain registration site. http://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/ ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to locate an error

2003-02-06 Thread Geoff Beier
Tomas Sanchez Romani wrote: So far I got two suggestions: 1) CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/gforge trying this (credit to Tom Copeland) a cmd-window opens executing cvs.exe and keeps me waiting, and waiting, and waiting... seems that nothing happens. 2) cvs -z3 -d:ext:[EMAIL

Re: How to Connect WinCVS 1.3b10 to New CVS 1.11.5 pserver?

2003-01-23 Thread Geoff Beier
[Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:22:18 -0800] Thus spake Peter Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We're testing out the new version of CVS 1.11.5 on a new pserver (Solaris 5.8) using port 2402. All of our cross-platform access (i.e., Solaris, Linux Win2K) to this new port and version check out okay

Re: Panic error code -39?

2003-01-22 Thread Geoff Beier
[Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:51:32 +0530] Thus spake Prem Prakash Pathak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have CVSServer version:1.11.1p1(client-server) setup under Linux, and are accessing CVSServer Repository from both MacOS 9/X WIndows over the network. 1. MacCVS Client 10.2 2. WinCVS Client 1.2 Accessing

Re: connection using pserver

2003-01-20 Thread Geoff Beier
Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Friday, January 17, 2003 4:46 PM -0500 Larry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We started down this path but couldn't get it working on Windows with cygwin ssh. (Server is a Red Hat box, though.) Is there a cookbook somewhere that explains how to make that scenario

Re: Security options :-(

2002-12-17 Thread Geoff Beier
Zieg, Mark wrote: I haven't done this myself in awhile, but you can configure a genuine login account -- cvsphil, in this case -- who can connect via ssh, but through no other method. That is, cvsphil can't login from the console, from telnet, rlogin, etc. I think this is mainly done by

Re: security question

2002-12-12 Thread Geoff Beier
PS - are there any windows and linux clients that particularly shine with SSH? TortoiseCVS on Windows (http://www.tortoisecvs.org/) works very well with ssh. They distribute a customized version of plink from the PuTTy suite. HTH Geoff ___