You also need to set the env variable if the server is running on Linux.
See:
http://www.michael-amorose.com/cvs/
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At 11:04 AM +0200 6/27/00, Pascal Francq wrote:
>---------- ----- Original Message ----- ----------
>Subject: Re: Problems while connecting to the cvs server
>Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:26:35 -0400 (EDT)
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones)
>
>
>Pascal Francq writes:
>>
>> [pfrancq@mecapp97 pfrancq]$ cvs -d
>>:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login
>> (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>> CVS password:
>> cvs [login aborted]: received broken pipe signal
>
>That almost certainly means that inetd was unable to start the server --
>check your inetd.conf carefully.
>
>-Larry Jones
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>In fact, the path to access the cvs executable was not good. I
>change it in the
>inetd.conf file where I add the following line:
>
>cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs -b /usr/bin
>pserver --allow-root
>
>But, now when I try to connect, I have this message:
>
>Server configuration missing --allow-root in inetd.conf
>cvs login: authorization failed: server mecapp97.ulb.ac.be rejected access
>
>But, I have add the --allow-root in the line. So is there something
>else to do?
>--
>
>
>Ir. Pascal Francq
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