how to execute cvs commit from script?

2001-05-31 Thread Bhavaniprasad Polimetla
Dear sir, script: #!/bin/ksh `cvs commit temp.c` the script giving following error. Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal how to execute cvs commit from script? thankyou, Bhavani. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple CVS and same files

2001-05-31 Thread Erik Mattsson
Well I found a solution, it is possible to use symlinks (unix) when creating files and directories in other directories. It is both possible to symlink the directories and files and committing works lika a charm now :) So I ended up with a layout such this one cvsA/xml cvsA/apple and

Re: how to execute cvs commit from script?

2001-05-31 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
cvs commit -m Your comment here temp.c -Original Message- From: Bhavaniprasad Polimetla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CVS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: how to execute cvs commit from script? Dear sir, script: #!/bin/ksh `cvs commit temp.c` the script

Re: how to execute cvs commit from script?

2001-05-31 Thread Bhavaniprasad Polimetla
thankyou sir. thankyou, Bhavnai Prasad Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: cvs commit -m Your comment here temp.c -Original Message- From: Bhavaniprasad Polimetla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CVS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: how to execute cvs commit from

Automatic update for Web pages

2001-05-31 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
Hello. We are currently using CVS for writing the web pages of our Intranet server. There are several developpers. All works fine : developper 1 developper 2 developper n | | | | | |

Diffs by a particular user-id

2001-05-31 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
Hi, I want to see the diffs between two static tags - but I only want to see it for checkins done by a particular user. How do I do that. Thanks Shubho ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

how to restrict the users to checkout only some branches

2001-05-31 Thread Sudarshan
hi I wish to know how to restrict users of project so that they will be accessibel to only to a particular branch regards Sudarshan ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: how to restrict the users to checkout only some branches

2001-05-31 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
Why don't you divide users in groups then give group write access only to the directories which you want a particular group to checkout. Shubho -Original Message- From: Sudarshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: how

Reapplying a tag

2001-05-31 Thread Helliwell, Matthew
I couldn't see this documented anywhere but I could have missed it being new to CVS... I've moved some source code to CVS and run rtag to give it an appropriate label. I now discover I've failed to move some files across and have just added these in. I've also put the wrong version of some files

CVS.DLL for DreamWeaver

2001-05-31 Thread Luis Andre Zattar
Please I need a DLL for use CVS integrate with DreamWeaver 4. Can anybody help me ? Thank's Luis Andre Zattar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: login problems - problem details given clearly

2001-05-31 Thread Bhavaniprasad Polimetla
dear sir, thankyou very very much. it is working fine. regards, bhavani. Larry Jones wrote: David Zaroski writes: Create file 'cvspserver' in '/etc/xinetd.d' (containing the following): service cvspserver { flags = REUSE NAMEINARGS socket_type = stream

Re: how to restrict the users to checkout only some branches

2001-05-31 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
He was talking about checkouts not checkins. I agree with you - if you need to restrict checkins to branches you need to have a commitinfo script - I had posted a sample script on this mailing list some time back. Shubho -Original Message- From: Andy Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

AW: Reapplying a tag

2001-05-31 Thread Schell Walter
Matt, If I now run rtag again on everything using the same label as before what's going to happen to the files already tagged? Will I end up with 2 identical tags on one file, possibly referring to two different version? use rtag -F, then existing tags will move to the actual position. Walter

RE: Reapplying a tag

2001-05-31 Thread Andy Baker
As a specific tag can only appear once within a file, reapplying the tag to a file that already contains it will move the tag to the specified revision - providing you use the '-F' option (see cvs -H rtag). Andy -Original Message- From: Helliwell, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: cvs edit: dying gasps

2001-05-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Bina Kshatriya wrote: If there is a watch set on a file and I try to use cvs edit filename to edit the file, I get an error message: cvs edit: dying gasps from the respository host. The weird part is that I have used watches before and did not receive this error message. This isn't enough

Re: cvs login problem from wincvs

2001-05-31 Thread Bhavaniprasad Polimetla
dear sir, the problem solved. i selected proper proxy server options in wincvs. thankyou, Bhavani. Bhavani Prasad Polimetla wrote: dear sir, cvs login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) cvs [login aborted]: proxy server 192.32.10.199:2401 does not support http tunnelling *CVS

Re: Multiple CVS and same files

2001-05-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Erik Mattsson wrote: Well I found a solution, it is possible to use symlinks (unix) when creating files and directories in other directories. It is both possible to symlink the directories and files and committing works lika a charm now :) So I ended up with a layout such this one

Re: CVS SSL

2001-05-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: I am most definitely not limiting CVS to any security model! I am arguing vehemently for total elimination of any *and* all security models from *within* CVS. CVS has no business even suggesting an appropriate security model for anyone -- in a client/server

Re: Diffs by a particular user-id

2001-05-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: Hi, I want to see the diffs between two static tags - but I only want to see it for checkins done by a particular user. How do I do that. You'll have to script something that reads logs or history to get the revisions you want diffs between then run cvs

[Fwd: CVS again]

2001-05-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Sir, I thank you for your quick reply. your answers have been very helpful. today i came to know from my senior about why this software is needed.(he does not have any idea,came to know through someone)our overseas client has the source code of the software and at times there is a version

Re: make check fails on redhat 6.2

2001-05-31 Thread Manik Bafna
Larry Jones wrote: Manik Bafna writes: Ok, I'm attaching the log. I compiled with the following options ./configure --without-gssapi --without-krb4 [...] revision 1.1 date: 2034/12/25 12:31:00; author: manik; state: Exp; Either your touch command

One Question

2001-05-31 Thread Pedro
I'm thinking in use cvs but I have the folowing doubt: If I run the CVS server in aUNIX machine while win32 clients are used. I want that every win32 client had his private project (files), so Can I use passwords for security issues without create a UNIX user for every win32 client? Thanx in

Re: One Question

2001-05-31 Thread Federico Montesino Pouzols
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:25:40PM +0200, Pedro wrote: I'm thinking in use cvs but I have the folowing doubt: If I run the CVS server in aUNIX machine while win32 clients are used. I want that every win32 client had his private project (files), so Can I use passwords for security issues

Re: [Fwd: CVS again]

2001-05-31 Thread Federico Montesino Pouzols
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:56:48AM -0400, Derek R. Price wrote: Sir, I thank you for your quick reply. your answers have been very helpful. today i came to know from my senior about why this software is needed.(he does not have any idea,came to know through someone)our overseas client has

lock/authorization fails

2001-05-31 Thread Jeffrey Bacon
WinCVS Error (on remove command): cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository `/home/cvsroot': Permission denied cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/cvsroot' cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up CVS Command Line Error: (on login command) $ cvs

commitinfo and client/server

2001-05-31 Thread Schell Walter
Hello, we use cvs server 1.11 on linux and wincvs as client. To pre-commit certain files at checkin, a perl-script should check these files. I changed commitinfo, checkoutlist etc and the script gets called with the path from repository and the filenames in this directory. While executing the

Re: [Fwd: CVS again]

2001-05-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Derek R. Price wrote: Subject: CVS again Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 07:00:00 - From: amit madhok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sir, I thank you for your quick reply. your answers have been very

Re: make check fails on redhat 6.2

2001-05-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Manik Bafna wrote: Either your touch command is broken or you live somewhere with a fractional timezone. sanity.sh does: touch 1225180134 cdir/cfile Which should set the timestamp of that file to 2034/12/25 18:01:34 in your local time. It then expects the corresponding

fatal signal and .rfl locks

2001-05-31 Thread Dennis Jones
When I do an update, I get the message, Terminated with fatal signal 11 It seems to be happening in the same place everytime, so I went to the directory on the CVS server where it stops, did an ls and found some #cvs.rfl files there. If I try to list those files (using ls -la) to get their

RE: commitinfo and client/server

2001-05-31 Thread Andy Baker
AIUI, on the server side you will actually be in the /tmp/cvsblah directory when your script is called so a quick examination of 'pwd' should give the game away. Andy -Original Message- From: Schell Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] we use cvs server 1.11 on linux and wincvs as client.

AW: commitinfo and client/server

2001-05-31 Thread Schell Walter
You're right. I only looked in $PWD; executing `pwd` shows the right directory. thank you Walter AIUI, on the server side you will actually be in the /tmp/cvsblah directory when your script is called so a quick examination of 'pwd' should give the game away. Andy

Re: AW: commitinfo and client/server

2001-05-31 Thread Derek R. Price
Schell Walter wrote: You're right. I only looked in $PWD; executing `pwd` shows the right directory. thank you Walter AIUI, on the server side you will actually be in the /tmp/cvsblah directory when your script is called so a quick examination of 'pwd' should give the game away. And

Re: commitinfo and client/server

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
Schell Walter writes: we use cvs server 1.11 on linux and wincvs as client. To pre-commit certain files at checkin, a perl-script should check these files. I changed commitinfo, checkoutlist etc and the script gets called with the path from repository and the filenames in this directory.

Skipping directories in checkout

2001-05-31 Thread Reinstein, Shlomo
Hi, While running cvs -d path-to-CVSROOT get some-project, I get the following message: cvs checkout: Updating some-project cvs checkout: cannot open directory path-to-CVSROOT/some-project: No such file or directory cvs checkout: skipping directory some-project The reason CVS is unable to open

Re: fatal signal and .rfl locks

2001-05-31 Thread Dennis Jones
Well, I couldn't wait for an answer, so I deleted the files. I still got the fatal signal and segmentation faults, so I figured there was something going on in the filesystem. So, I rebooted the server and was going to run fsck, but all is well after the reboot. Very strange. - Dennis -

Re: fatal signal and .rfl locks

2001-05-31 Thread Donald Sharp
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:30:43AM -0700, Dennis Jones wrote: When I do an update, I get the message, Terminated with fatal signal 11 It seems to be happening in the same place everytime, so I went to the directory on the CVS server where it stops, did an ls and found some #cvs.rfl

Re: vss2cvs migration of shared files

2001-05-31 Thread Laine Stump
Manik Bafna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW when trying to migrate from VSS to CVS found that it does not migrate deleted files. How to fix this problem. Laine Stump wrote: I'm not aware of any method to get information or history for file deleted from VSS without undeleting them

deleting branches.

2001-05-31 Thread Donald Sharp
I have a user who manged to delete a branch( it looks like with the cvs rtag -d command ). When I went poking at the ,v file it looks like the revisions for that branch are still around. Is it ok to just put the branch name and revision back into the ,v files? donald

Re: CVS LockDir Help

2001-05-31 Thread Donald Sharp
does /home/dotcvs/cvslocks exist? donald On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:56:44PM +0600, William Asquith wrote: I am trying to use LockDir with cvs1.10.7 on Linux. My root is /home/dotcvs and I want locks in /home/cvslocks. I have played with permissions but still get this: cvs checkout:

RE: fatal signal and .rfl locks

2001-05-31 Thread Kostur, Andre
Are you using WinCVS? If so, ours was crashing too because the username that we were using wasn't listed in the CVSROOT/passwd file (and we are allowing the system to fall-back to system authentication). BTW: If nobody else is using cvs, then you can remove the lock files. -Original

Re: CVS LockDir Help

2001-05-31 Thread William Asquith
I sure does--and that is the mystery to me. CVSROOT cvslocks fortworth junkcvs [asquith@balrog dotcvs]$ pwd /home/dotcvs [asquith@balrog dotcvs]$ ls -l total 16 drwxrwxr-x3 asquith cvsadmin 4096 May 31 13:00 CVSROOT drwxrwxr-x2 asquith txdotcvs 4096 May 31 12:55 cvslocks

Re: fatal signal and .rfl locks

2001-05-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:01:51PM -0400, Donald Sharp wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:30:43AM -0700, Dennis Jones wrote: When I do an update, I get the message, Terminated with fatal signal 11 It seems to be happening in the same place everytime, so I went to the directory on

Re: fatal signal and .rfl locks

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
Dennis Jones writes: Well, I couldn't wait for an answer, so I deleted the files. I still got the fatal signal and segmentation faults, so I figured there was something going on in the filesystem. So, I rebooted the server and was going to run fsck, but all is well after the reboot. Very

RE: deleting branches.

2001-05-31 Thread Andy Baker
Yes, if you can identify the a.b.0.c revision, but tread with care! Oh, and give the user a slap '-) Andy -Original Message- From: Donald Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 May 2001 19:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: deleting branches. I have a user who manged to delete

Re: CVS LockDir Help

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
William Asquith writes: I am trying to use LockDir with cvs1.10.7 on Linux. My root is /home/dotcvs and I want locks in /home/cvslocks. I have played with permissions but still get this: cvs checkout: Updating junkcvs cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot stat /home/dotcvs/cvslocks: No such

Re: deleting branches.

2001-05-31 Thread Donald Sharp
As I suspected. I can identify the a.b.0.c revision. donald On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Andy Baker wrote: Yes, if you can identify the a.b.0.c revision, but tread with care! Oh, and give the user a slap '-) Andy -Original Message- From: Donald Sharp

Re: Skipping directories in checkout

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
Reinstein, Shlomo writes: The reason CVS is unable to open the repository directories of this project is that there is a network problem and the connection to the file server (not CVS server!) in which the repository is located is unstable. The question is, why does it skip the directory?

Re: fatal signal and .rfl locks

2001-05-31 Thread Dennis Jones
Well, we *do* know the system is a little flaky. This is the same system on which we were (and still do occasionally) getting those funny single-bit errors during check-in, where a character would get modified by one bit to become some other character. We are planning to replace this server

Re: CVS LockDir Help

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
William Asquith writes: Yes, I have LockDir=/home/dotcvs/cvslocks in config. The directory does exist. No, it doesn't. If it did, you wouldn't be getting No such file or directory. Check for typos. As mentioned in first email, I want true read-only and writer access to repository.

Re: CVS LockDir Help

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
William Asquith writes: # LockDir=/home/dotcvs/cvslocks Lose the around the value -- it should be just: LockDir=/home/dotcvs/cvslocks -Larry Jones I've got PLENTY of common sense! I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs

Re: deleting branches.

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
Donald Sharp writes: I have a user who manged to delete a branch( it looks like with the cvs rtag -d command ). When I went poking at the ,v file it looks like the revisions for that branch are still around. Is it ok to just put the branch name and revision back into the ,v files?

Re: deleting branches.

2001-05-31 Thread Donald Sharp
I was just going to do it by hand( didn't realize that admin could do this ). I think I can do a cvs admin -nbranch_name:branch_rev filenames Where branch_name is the branch in question. Where branch_rev is the revision number for the branch. is this correct? donald On Thu, May 31, 2001 at

Re: make check fails on redhat 6.2

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
Derek R. Price writes: Larry, unfortunately, 'date +%z' doesn't appear to be portable, but 'date -u' is defined to return UTC by SUS2. Any objections to something like 'expr abs\(`date +%M` - `date -u +%M`\)/10' to grab the minute differential? Other than the fact that most expr's don't

Re: deleting branches.

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
Donald Sharp writes: I was just going to do it by hand( didn't realize that admin could do this ). That's what I was afraid of. :-) I think I can do a cvs admin -nbranch_name:branch_rev filenames Where branch_name is the branch in question. Where branch_rev is the revision number

Re: deleting branches.

2001-05-31 Thread Donald Sharp
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:59:15PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: Donald Sharp writes: I was just going to do it by hand( didn't realize that admin could do this ). That's what I was afraid of. :-) Yep.. That's the reason I asked the question. Fortunately for me if I do it in this

Re: CVS LockDir Help

2001-05-31 Thread William Asquith
Sorry to kept this up. The removal might have made the difference. It is now apparently working for 'junkcvs', but checkout is not working for 'fortworth'. Here is CVSROOT (should permissions be stricter for users?): [asquith@balrog txdotcvs]$ ls -l total 16 drwxrwxr-x3 asquith cvsadmin

Re: CVS LockDir Help

2001-05-31 Thread Donald Sharp
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:28:24PM +0600, William Asquith wrote: Sorry to kept this up. The removal might have made the difference. It is now apparently working for 'junkcvs', but checkout is not working for 'fortworth'. Here is CVSROOT (should permissions be stricter for users?):

What does cvs admin -l do for me?

2001-05-31 Thread Sandra Humphrey
I have search the archives and I know that locking files has been brought up in the past. According to the manual, -l will lock the latest revision number. But, in the next paragraph it states that I need to use rcslock.pl to have a reserved checkout. I am confused on what exactly the -l

CVS GUI (Solaris 2.8)

2001-05-31 Thread Lamar Seifuddin
Good Afternoon, All, I have CVS-1.11.1p installed on a Solaris 2.8 environment. and converted our software from SCCS to CVS. This users list has been very helpful in enabling me to do this effort. Much Thanks Question:What gui-type packages are available and compatible with the

deleting branches

2001-05-31 Thread Stephen Cameron
Donald Sharp wrote: I have a user who manged to delete a branch( it looks like with the cvs rtag -d command ). When I went poking at the ,v file it looks like the revisions for that branch are still around. Is it ok to just put the branch name and revision back into the ,v files? Yes,

Re: What does cvs admin -l do for me?

2001-05-31 Thread Noel L Yap
I have search the archives and I know that locking files has been brought up in the past. According to the manual, -l will lock the latest revision number. But, in the next paragraph it states that I need to use rcslock.pl to have a reserved checkout. I am confused on what exactly the -l

update -C fails

2001-05-31 Thread Fabrice Gautier
Hi, When I do: $ cvs -z9 -q update -P -C I get the following error message: cvs server: invalid option -- C Usage: cvs server [-APdflRp] [-k kopt] [-r rev|-D date] [-j rev] [-I ign] [-W spec] [files...] -A Reset any sticky tags/date/kopts. -P Prune empty

help!

2001-05-31 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
I'm new to CVS and to wincvs. The problem is this: Create Menu ... Checkout Module ... Checkout Settings (popup), in both the CheckoutSettings tab and General tab, I want to get rid of some of the options in the drop down list (module name and path). How does one accomplish this? If it's in

Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-31 Thread Ralph Mack
[Greg Woods wrote...] By allowing *anyone* to use CVS on your machine you are very nearly granting them shell access anyway! If you do so in a totally unaccountable way (i.e. with pserver) then you've just lost the integrity (and thus the security) of your repository. I.e. CVS cannot

wincvs error 2

2001-05-31 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
I get the following error when starting up wincvs: Error while accessing C:\Macros (error 2) Then it proceeds to log into CVSROOT with no problem. What is this error? Is it something I need to be concerned about? Jeanie ___ Info-cvs mailing list

-jHEAD:yesterday

2001-05-31 Thread Tony Mantler
I would like to do something that I think CVS should be able to do, but the method has so far escaped me. basically I type... cvs update -jHEAD -jHEAD:yesterday ...to try to merge changes in the main branch between yesterday and today in reverse chronological order. Instead, it simply

Re: update -C fails

2001-05-31 Thread Larry Jones
Fabrice Gautier writes: Could this be that the cvs server is so old that the -C option doesn't exist? Exactly. -Larry Jones How am I supposed to learn surgery if I can't dissect anything? -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Skipping directories in checkout

2001-05-31 Thread Reinstein, Shlomo
Hi, I fully agree with the philosophy - I'd rather have more than less. But at the end of the checkout operation, I expect to know from CVS (through its exit status, and perhaps also through an error message) that something went wrong. Otherwise the only way for me to intercept it is to capture