In message <000d01bf8e84$a2eeced0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matthew Brown" writes : >I did that once. Only I modified the current --allow-root option to allow it t >o accept a semicolon-delimited list. I mailed it to this list and was promptly > notified that there is a simpler way ... duh: write a shell script and call t >hat instead of directly calling CVS from the inetd configuration. Then you can > have all the --allow-root arguments you like, and - bonus here too - you can >change and add repositories to the allowed list without reinitializing inetd. > >That said, I still think that it is nice to have a means of specifying a repos >itory list to make things more concise. >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to setup a single cvs server to server multiple (10+) repositori >es >> (via "pserver"). From the info page, I am apparently supposed to have one >> "--allow-root" line per repository, but that exceeds inetd's internal line >> limit, and the solution of having inetd call a shell script seems crufty. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I am aware of that solution, but like I said I think there is a cleaner, simpler way to do it. Someone wrote me back privately to tell me that they had submitted a similar patch for this earlier, only to have it rejected (He has not yet gotten back to me as to why it was rejected). Is there some other issue I am missing here as to why people are against this? - Rob .
