Thank you very much for the advice.
However, when I login to CVS Server on box A from box B, and tried the
following I still get "directory not found" error. Please help...
Thnaks!
$ /usr/local/bin/cvs -d :pserver:veronica@boxA:/usr/local/repos_on_A co
myproj
[checkout aborted]: cannot make directory myproj: No such file or
directory
--- Larry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Veronica Lee writes:
> >
> > Then how does CVS know which box's repository I am trying to
> access?
>
> If you're in a working directory, from the CVS/Root and
> CVS/Repository
> files; if not, then from the -d global option if specified and from
> $CVSROOT otherwise.
>
> > I have CVS istalled on box A and B.
> > I would telnet into Box B.
> > Login to CVS Server on Box A: /usr/local/bin/cvs -d
> > :pserver:veronica@boxA:/usr/local/repos_on_A login
>
> That just causes CVS to remember the password for that particular
> root,
> it does not "make it current".
>
> > However, if I try to check out a module, I ran into problems.
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/cvs -d co /usr/local/repos_on_A/myproj (failed)
> > /usr/local/bin/cvs -d co repos_on_A/myproj (failed)
> >
> > It appears that instead of looking for /usr/local/repos_on_A/myproj
> on
> > Box A, it looked for the repository on box B. When it cannot find
> it,
> > CVS gave me errors.
>
> Those aren't valid commands -- -d needs an argument. And checkout
> takes
> a module name or a path relative to the root, so the correct command
> would be (assuming /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH):
>
> cvs -d :pserver:veronica@boxA:/usr/local/repos_on_A co myproj
>
> If you're only using a single repository (which is how most people
> use
> CVS), just set the $CVSROOT environment variable to point to that
> repository (e.g.,
> CVSROOT=:pserver:veronica@boxA:/usr/local/repos_on_A);
> then you don't have to specify -d on the command line.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> Honey, are we out of aspirin again? -- Calvin's Dad
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