On Friday 13 June 2003 12:23, Colin Watson wrote: > CVS_RSH, as the name suggests, defaults to rsh. This is a compile-time > option in the cvs package, but Debian just leaves this at the upstream > default of rsh.
OK. Then "alternatives" substitutes ssh. On the other commercial distro system rsh _is_ available, it got used and refused at the Debian CVS server. The I set CVS_RSH=ssh; export CVS_RSH on the commercial distro and the Debian CVS server is happy. When doing CVS checkouts from Debian boxes, CVS uses rsh which is really ssh - so no need to set CVS_RSH (for now). > At the moment the ssh package installs an rsh symlink > pointing to ssh; as I've just explained, this may change and you should > explicitly set CVS_RSH=ssh if that's what you want. > > See the "Connecting with rsh" node in 'info cvs' for more information on > CVS_RSH. > > > I don't want to change CVS on Debian. I want to understand why I > > don't have to set CVS_RSH on Debian. > > Vineet explained this above. The rsh -> ssh symlink is a "feature" of > the Debian ssh package, and one which I'd advise you not to rely on. OK. (I sense a learning opportunity is headed my way :-) > > Cheers, Thanks all, for clearing that up. -- Mike Mueller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]