Stuart R Dole writes:
>
> Clients are RedHat 6.1, CVS 1.10.6. (Should they be 1.10.8?)
> We call them "nodes" (embedded systems, effectively -- no
> monitor or keyboard -- we telnet in). Put "export
> CVSROOT=:pserver:root@gaia:/usr/local/repository" in node's
> /etc/profile.
This is highly suspicious -- unless you're using CVSROOT/passwd to map
root into another user, you've got the CVS server running as root, which
seems foolhard to me.
> When I try to setup a source tree on a new node, it doesn't
> make the CVS directory. This is the main problem. (Sometimes
> it makes it one directory down from where I want it to, so I
> need to copy it up.) If I "cvs checkout ." it checks out
> EVERYTHING, into directories on level down. I then mv stuff
> around and delete all the other project directories...
You need to give us a bit more detail about exactly what CVS commands
you're doing and what results you get as opposed to what you expect to
get.
-Larry Jones
Wow, how existential can you get? -- Hobbes
