Re: How to tell CVS that it should use the proper date/time

2004-07-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Jim.Hyslop wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure I follow this. How would using the timestamp of the file instead of the time of checkin break make? The problem is that the CVS doesn't guarantee that the files are copied into the workspace in the same order in which they were

Re: How to tell CVS that it should use the proper date/time

2004-07-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek R. Price writes: It wouldn't, but it could break the RCS archive file contract that says that internal commit timestamps will be increasing. Is there such a contract, given that RCS's ci has a -d option that lets you set the date to anything you want (and its

Re: How to tell CVS that it should use the proper date/time

2004-07-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Derek R. Price wrote: Yes. RCS_getdatebranch() in rcs.c stops when it finds the first date that is too old. From RCS_getdatebranch() in rcs.c: Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that that can't be fixed, but any archive file that took advantage of it would no longer work quite

Re: edit document in several branches simultaneously

2004-02-24 Thread Derek R. Price
I'm moving this discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you reply to this email, please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the address list. Paul Gelderblom (ptok) wrote: I checked with Matthew Ogilvie, who earlier published a version of the advisory locks patch including documentation and test cases.

Re: a commit script

2003-03-13 Thread Derek R. Price
I am currently out of the office and unable to reply to your email. I will return to the office on Monday, March 17th, 2003. If this matter cannot wait, I can be reached via phone at (717) 579-6168. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pvcs to cvs

2001-10-24 Thread Derek R. Price
christian liesch wrote: I did like to know if it is possible to migrate a pvcs archive to a cvs archive without loosing the history? http://ccvs.cvshome.org/source/browse/ccvs/contrib/pvcs2rcs.in Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org )

Re: [Fwd: Meta-issue: recent spam surge]

2001-10-24 Thread Derek R. Price
David Taylor wrote: And don't forget to protect Greg Woods from spam ;-) bounce_matching_headers for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject:.*[^A-Za-z](binary|pserver|links|symlinks)[^A-Za-z] But, seriously folks, what's wrong with leaving it up to each list member to determine what to filter, and

Re: CVSHome reorganization? (Was RE: GUI to CVS)

2001-10-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Jimmy Rimmer wrote: I was going to answer this question by posting a link to CVSHome.org's Tools list, but that list seems to have disappeared; all that's left are the Hosted Tools, which doesn't include TortoiseCVS, jCVS, tkCVS, or any of the CVS frontends. Did that page disappear? Where

Re: Possible to use PAM as authentication on linux?

2001-10-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Johnny Ljunggren wrote: Is it, and if so, how? regards -- Johnny Ljunggren, Bærefjellvn 15, 3160 STOKKE Tlf: 918 50 411, ICQ: 50630605 ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs Steve McIntyre

Re: Routine to encrypt passwords for the password file for Sun Solaris

2001-10-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Mudit Sachdev wrote: Hi Anyone know of a routine I can use to create a password file on Sun Solaris system? To crypt 1 password: perl -e'print crypt password, salt' file Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Taginfo question

2001-06-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Andy Baker wrote: Must be a pretty fundamental change to get the result Mark wants. Is there any documentation for this patch? I'd like to apply it but I'd rather appreciate what it does before applying it. First, I just noticed that I posted the link to the wrong patch. The proper link

Re: BRANCH LABEL FOR DIRECTORIES

2001-06-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: Ah, but in this case I can. Everything I've described about tracking the renaming/moving of files using cvs rm and cvs add with magically meaningful comment strings can be easily automated by a front-end. No change is necessary in CVS itself to achieve this

Re: trouble setting up Chroot'd CVS Server: no such user

2001-06-18 Thread Derek R. Price
Rob Eso wrote: [rae@skywalker myproj]$ cvs -d $CVSROOT import myproj v1 r1 Fatal error, aborting. cvs: no such user cvs import: authorization failed: server vader rejected access to /cvsroot for user rob Please read the sections of the manual on setting up a CVS server, connecting to a

Re: cvs installation

2001-06-15 Thread Derek R. Price
prasad marumokham wrote: Sir, We have linux 7.0 on pentium III 500MHz processor. We had download cvs software from cvshome.org. 1.cvs-1.11.1-cvshome.7x.1.i686.rpm 2.cvs-1.11.1-cvshome.7x.1.i386.rpm Either of these should be fine if you are running RedHat Linux. They will sometimes work

Re: CVS - Obsolete files

2001-06-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Koti wrote: what is diff between cvs rm and cvs delete? I am using cvs 1.10, I never heared about cvs rm. From which version cvs rm is available? [dprice@magus dprice]$ cvs --help-synonyms CVS command synonyms are: add ad new adminadm rcs annotate

Re: CVS control dirs w/o checkout?

2001-06-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Tomki wrote: Hello, I have a huge repository that I need to check into CVS. My CVS server's connection to the internet is not fast, and the international connection dependability is not high. So I am using FTP to retrieve the tree to be checked in. Is there a way to place the original dirs

Re: CVS and AFS

2001-06-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Charles Karney wrote: We use CVS in a mixed Windows and Linux environment. Recently we switched from accessing the CVS repository vis ssh to a Linux machine on which CVSROOT was a local disk to having the CVS repository in AFS and having all clients access this as a local file system. The

Re: Problem at Importing

2001-06-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Sangeeta Gupta wrote: FRIENDcvs import -m try work start1 start2 ksh: cvs: not found cvs [import aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) The CVS executable isn't in your path on the server. You need to set the CVS_SERVER variable on the client side to a complete

Re: CVS tags

2001-06-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Alexander Kamilewicz wrote: cvs -q get -r releasetag logfile cvs -qn co -r releasetag module Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CollabNet ( http://collab.net ) -- It'll take a miracle to get you out of

Re: (no subject)

2001-06-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Alex Flores wrote: I need help please. I can not merge a branch into my main trunk. I am a ClearCase man. I can not figure out how to use the CVS merge utility or how to resolve conflicts. http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_5.html#SEC54 cvs commit: Examining . cvs [commit aborted]:

Re: Maintaining branches...

2001-06-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Mike Castle wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:26:31PM -0400, Derek R. Price wrote: Mike Castle wrote: And I think that this complete merging happens less than you might think. It cannot handle the situation where a specific set of changes is migrated before another (i.e., -j tag1

Re: not able to commit

2001-06-13 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: I would highly recommend you read the cvs documentation about sticky tags and how to properly use them. And note that this is a perfectly valid operation with stick branches, which the documentation will sometimes refer to as sticky tags. You might want to read enough

Re: AW: update errors

2001-06-13 Thread Derek R. Price
Schell Walter wrote: I'm getting errors when I call update, are these happening because the CVS/Entries file is missing? How can I get these files back from the repository? Rename the directory classes und do a checkout classes; seems to me, as if the directory is not the result of an

Re: commit problem

2001-06-13 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cvs server: sticky tag `v1-0-0-0' for file `telcom/telcom_tags_pool.dat' is not a branch cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first! *CVS exited normally with code 1* Read the section of the manual on sticky tags, branches, and branching and merging.

Re: ASCII and Binary

2001-06-13 Thread Derek R. Price
tal eran wrote: Can i use cvs to update web pages that contain ascii(html) and binary(image files)? Yes. Be sure to tell CVS which files are binary. Please see http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/ for more. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org )

Re: chage of modules in the modules file

2001-06-13 Thread Derek R. Price
Andreas Wolff wrote: I released Version1 with a module module1 that consists of dir1 and dir2 While developing Version2 I droped dir2 and added dir3, i.e. module1 consists now of dir1 and dir3. This is now reflected in the current version of the module file. No. The modules file is not

Re: how to identify a release

2001-06-13 Thread Derek R. Price
Andreas Wolff wrote: I want to identify a release of my source. I understood that the tag mechanism can be used for this purpose. But in this case I have to apply the tag to each file. I am afraid that in big projects with lots of files this may take a reasonable amount of time. Is there

Re: How to set up a complex project

2001-06-13 Thread Derek R. Price
Fran Fabrizio wrote: - What happens when they release a new tarball? We've already made changes to some of their stuff so do I create a new vendor branch, put their new stuff on it, and then merge the branches? Just reimport it. CVS will manage the merge for you. Read the manual on vendor

Re: Where is CVS for SunOS 5.7 ???

2001-06-13 Thread Derek R. Price
Alexey Mahotkin wrote: SB == Stan Berka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB Because the only thing I see is for 5.6 and earlier. Please, help! As far as I know, it should be somewhere at http://www.sunfreeware.com/. You can look, but they've been slow to update to new releases of CVS lately.

Re: Stale CVS locks

2001-06-12 Thread Derek R. Price
Reinstein, Shlomo wrote: Hi, It happens many times that CVS users execute some CVS command (e.g., cvs log), and then, before it finished executing, they abort the command using Ctrl+Break or a similar manner. The outcome of this is that the read locks generated by CVS remain in place, and

Re: CVS problem over Mandrake Linux

2001-06-12 Thread Derek R. Price
Matthew Riechers wrote: I start a Windows cvs client and try to connect as anonymous. The client return this message: CVS.EXE [login aborted]: could not find out home directory. I can not find where is the problem. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Make sure $HOME is specified in

Re: Stupid newbie question

2001-06-12 Thread Derek R. Price
Matt Keyes wrote: Hey all... If I'm using Debian Linux, should I download the .gz file or the .rpm?I thought Debian didn't use rpm, rather apt, but I'm not sure... You'll want the .gz, though if you want to figure out how to build a debian package and submit the conf file, we'd welcome the

Re: disk space, import

2001-06-12 Thread Derek R. Price
Tomki wrote: Documentation on www.cvshome.org indicated that it could be done by having '-T /newdirectory' in the /etc/inetd.conf cvs line. No luck, but also no further errors. I also attempted adding this option to the import line. No luck, also no further errors. I eventually discovered

Re: Mailing Diffs on Commit

2001-06-12 Thread Derek R. Price
Scott D. Pham wrote: How do I invoke cvs to mail diffs on commit ? Any ideas of scripts ? Thanks !! The loginfo and sometimes commitinfo scripts are usually used for this purpose: http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC170 You might try adapting the log or commit_prep log_accum

Re: importing into a named branch

2001-06-11 Thread Derek R. Price
Jayaraman, Kamalnayan wrote: How do I import a directory and its subdirectories into a branch if I do not have a numeric branch tag? The branch name argument to the import command creates a vendor branch if it doesn't exist. If this doesn't help, please RTFM before asking again:

Re: Loginfo Problems

2001-06-11 Thread Derek R. Price
Brad Pfautsch wrote: CVS Version: 1.10.7-7 Linux Version: Debian 2.2 r2 WinCVS Client v1.2 MacCVSClient v1.6 I now have keeping a checked out copy working, but I'm getting some errors when committing using either WinCVS or MacCVSClient. Here is my Loginfo file (Less the quotes): # #

Re: edit -c

2001-06-11 Thread Derek R. Price
make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/ccvs' Making all in lib make[2]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/ccvs/lib' Makefile:282: *** missing separator. Stop. This is most likely due to you using a different version of Automake than we did and allowing it to rebuild your

Re: cvs log options ( was Re: cvs rtag -r BRANCH -D date)

2001-06-11 Thread Derek R. Price
Stephen Rasku wrote: cvs admin -o uses a colon syntax to specify a revision range and cvs log uses the same (or similar) syntax to specify revisions (except for the space problem mentioned above) but it uses a different syntax for dates. First of all, it uses -d instead of -D and it uses a

Re: Patch: Missing annotate.c file in MS VisualC project file

2001-06-11 Thread Derek R. Price
Jerzy Kaczorowski wrote: Here is the patch (diff actually) that will fix the problem of building the Windows version of cvs.exe - the file annotate.c was missing from the cvsnt.dsp project file. Checked in with a few minor modifications. Please include ChangeLog entries with future patches.

Re: cvs rtag -r BRANCH -D date

2001-06-11 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simply allowing both -r and -D is intuitive, but it does cause problems for diff. I'm throughly undecided about what the best approach is. One option to specify one revision (-rbranch:date) seems cleaner than two (-rbranch -Ddate) in

Re: Permission problems

2001-06-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Giuseppe Milicia wrote: Hi everyone, don't kill me if this has been debated to death already... :) Recently I changed my CVS root from a local mounted network drive to a client-server thing. What happens is that when I add new files these belong to the wrong group. Normally they would

Re: can't commit! permissions question

2001-06-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I've included two examples below complete with error messages. The first is me logged into cvs as user cvsadmin in the cvsgrp group. There are two modules: rat and DEV. The second example is me logged in as user jschwenk in the users group. Unfortunately, I did

Re: Info-cvs digest, Vol 1 #603 - 14 msgs

2001-06-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Ron Smith wrote: Then, I had one other minor problem -- it said it could not create the .cvspass in my home directory. I created an empty .cvspass there and now everything works perfectly! That's a known bug that's been fixed in the development version. Derek -- Derek Price

Re: Spaces in directory or file names

2001-06-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Todd Denniston wrote: Donald Sharp wrote: It seems to work for me when I just tried it.. Create a test repository and create a filename with a space in it try different things with it. See if it works. donald well one thing it seems I can not do is use the directory as a module

Re: Download documentation

2001-06-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Todd Denniston wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to download the CVS online manual to be able to use it locally. I mean the one you get on http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html I did not find it anywhere, even not in the complete CVS distribution. Where

Re: an issue that could cause false failure of sanity.sh

2001-06-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Alexey Mahotkin wrote: There was an issue reported by users of cvs-nserver where test suite would fail with FAIL: basica-o1 The cause of this failure was existence of 'cvsadmin' group, and user running make check was not in that group. check.log shows: PASS: basica-r5 ** expected:

Re: Problems running cvs pserver

2001-06-06 Thread Derek R. Price
Sven Dowideit wrote: on solaris when i do a login with 1.11p1 it failes with the error failed to read /home/sven/.cvspass when i create that file everything works fine. (i kinda expect to be told that its fixed in the dev version :) Yeah. Larry fixed that about a month ago, but thanks!

Re: CVS search

2001-06-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Olivier Schlatter wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a web interface which can be able to do a search inside each file of a CVS module.I tried CVSSearch, but the query runs on the CVS comments and not inside the files.Do you know something that can help me. Thanks a lot in advance.Olivier If you

Re: Setting up a CVS repository on the web

2001-06-05 Thread Derek R. Price
M. Edward Borasky wrote: I want to set up a CVS repository on the web. I need to have access controlled by a password. How do I do this? Is there code available to do it already?? Browse http://CVShome.org for information on/links to CVS web clients. You might try a general web search too.

Re: Problems running cvs pserver

2001-06-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Sven Dowideit wrote: Heya Larry, i have had another stab at it, and I still cannot build a pserver cvs that works. ./configure --without-gssapi still leaves gssapi libs in the Makefile and when i hack the configure script to leave off all of the gssapi stuff, I get an exe that

Re: cvs log

2001-06-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Zanabria, Moises wrote: I need to create a report with the following information: symbolic names: revision: date: comment: I tried with cvs log but I can't filter the information for specific Tag. somebody have a query or script to generates a similar information. Any information I

Re: Strange error: EOF in value...

2001-06-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: I'm attaching a script that will find the damaged version for you. [...] check_cvs.plName: check_cvs.pl Type: Perl Program (application/x-perl) I don't suppose you'd consider GPLing that and resubmitting it to bug-cvs so I can drop it in the contrib

Re: [Fwd: Export from Clear Case into CVS?]

2001-06-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: I'm not sure if one exists for ClearCase, but the jist of any of these scripts is to checkout each version of each file from one VC system, then check each of them into the other (while trying to preserve comments and who checked stuff in). There's a pvcs2rcs.pl script in

[Fwd: Export from Clear Case into CVS?]

2001-06-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Please send these sort of questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CollabNet ( http://collab.net ) -- Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected become the expected? Hello, I

Re: Broken log message in fresh CVS

2001-06-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Alexey Mahotkin writes: When I'm working at work (on older CVS) I have to type i in vi to go into insert mode. At home (on newer CVS) I have to type O in vi to insert new blank line and go into insert mode. Am I clear? :) Just always type O -- CVS deletes trailing

Re: cvs rtag -r BRANCH -D date

2001-06-05 Thread Derek R. Price
Alexey Mahotkin wrote: If I try to say $ cvs rtag -r BRANCH -D 23 Jan 2001 TEST junk it says cvs [rtag aborted]: -r and -D options are mutually exclusive The thing is that those options are mutually exclusive only when -r specifies non-branch tag. If there is no other method of

Re: CVS GUI (Solaris 2.8)

2001-06-04 Thread Derek R. Price
Howard Zhou wrote: Hi, Derek, Do you know which CVS GUI can be customized easily? It seems to me that it's tkCVS but I just want to confirm. Also do you have any comparison on these GUI packages such as proscons? Not really. I can tell you from experience that jCVS could be a bit slow but

Re: make check fails on redhat 6.2

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: 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

Re: CVS SSL

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: Well, yeah. I think this discussion started about the generic socket provider hook I provided, initially with the idea that it would be useful with an SSL provider. This leaves CVS room to use authenticating and non-authenticating channel providers now - a

Re: deleting branches.

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: I just tried using the admin -n command in a test repository. I'm getting: donsharp-u5:27 cvs admin -nFOOZLE:1.5.0.2 bar RCS file: /nfs/swtrf/repository/test/c/bar,v cvs [admin aborted]: revision `1.5.0.2' does not exist I know 1.5.0.2 doesn't exist, but that's the

Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: The problem is that I see it as if you're trying to say that CVS Pserver plus SSL equals secure. It most certainly does not. You have no provable authentication and thus no provable accountability. Not on the server side, but it prevents sniffing. Server certificate

Re: CVS LockDir Help

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: 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

Re: How to mirror a cvs repository?

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Fabrice Gautier wrote: ould like to create a local cvs server which mirror another repository. I only have anonymous access to the original repository. You might look into CVSup rdist. Links for CVSup are available from http://cvshome.org . Try the mail archives too. This question comes

Re: Permission denied when using CVS remotely

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Kris Thielemans wrote: I've set -up CVS on our Linux system (SuSE 6.3,cvs 1.10.7). It all works fine. Now I'm trying to access the archive remotely. I try this from both a Sun (solaris 2.7, cvs 1.10.7) and NT (4.0 sp5, using the cvs version 1.11 distributed with cygwin). I get Permission

Re: lock/authorization fails

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Jeffrey Bacon wrote: 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 This is a permissions

Re: CVS SSL

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Friday, June 1, 2001 at 13:59:20 (-0400), Derek R. Price wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS SSL Greg A. Woods wrote: So build your little provider as an external program that CVS can call and there'll be no problem! (well, at least not within CVS

Re: Put .deps directories in .cvsignore files?

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Stephen Cameron wrote: Hi, I've checked out CVS sometime ago from cvs.cvshome.org, and now I do: [scameron@zuul ccvs]$ cvs -z3 -nq update ? lib/.deps/argmatch.Po ? lib/.deps/dup2.Po ? lib/.deps/fncase.Po [ ... loads more ? files...] ? src/.deps/[loads of ? files...] Should there

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: 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: [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 helpful

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

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: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-30 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Tuesday, May 29, 2001 at 09:18:33 (-0500), Thornley, David wrote: ] Subject: RE: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS Any problems with running pserver over an encrypted channel? It seems to met that would be just as secure as ssh access (and, of

Re: [Newbie question] When LOGIN fails

2001-05-30 Thread Derek R. Price
David A. Cobb wrote: Today I was working with a repository at the other end of an SSH tunnel. My CVS LOGIN was rejected: server denied access to ${CVSROOT} However, while experimenting with Xemacs/PCL-CVS I requested to STATUS, and then to UPDATE my directories. Both functions apparently

Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Mark wrote: I think a good explaination of how to run pserver as a non-root user would be good to have in the CVS manual. Like Larry said, as long as all the CVS users in CVSROOT/passwd map to the same user that the CVS binary is running as, things should work. Documentation patches happily

Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Thornley, David wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:48 PM To: Mark Cc: CVS Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS The problem is that pserver cannot be made secure.

Re: Accessing CVS from a remote machine

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Bekai wrote: I am new to both linux and CVS and have the task of setting CVS up on a linux box so that it can host our projects. I installed Red Hat 7.0 and was able to import , checkout locally, but when I try to access it from a windows or Mac client, I get the following error message.

Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Saturday, May 26, 2001 at 03:07:20 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ] Subject: Re: Linux security issues as they pertain to CVS Greg A. Woods writes: So, if you don't have root access then how the heck do you propose to implement CVS Pserver?!?!?!? (Hint:

Re: Windows command line

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Arlene Govender@iCommerce wrote: Hi Can someone please help me. We have cvs lying on a UNIX box. We need to check in and check out from inside Siebel which is lying on a NT machine. Can someone please help me with the WindowsNT Command lines that are needed to access, check in, check out

Re: CVS/RCS notion of state

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to mimic this using tags though. Tag releases with one tag, keep experimental versions on a branch or vice versa. Read the sections of the manual on http://cvshome.org on tags and branches and if Gosh this seems overkill for such a seemingly

Re: Windows 2000

2001-05-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Bill May wrote: Is CVS supported on Windows 2000 Um, noone has contributed any Win32 binaries lately, but I think it usually still keeps working through bug reports even if you have to compile it yourself. You might encounter bugs a little more often since some of the case-insensitivity stuff

Re: Installing CVS on Windows 2000

2001-05-25 Thread Derek R. Price
Gupta, Kavita - VIST wrote: Hi I was trying to install CVS on Windows 2000. I set up the PATH, HOME and CVSROOT variables correctly. Now when I type cvs co temppro where temppro is a directory in $CVSROOT I get the following error: cvs co aborted no such host c Even when I use absolute

Re: log since a tag

2001-05-25 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know a good way to see all the log messages since a given tag? http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#SEC140 You probably want the '-d' or '-r' options. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org )

Re: CVS SSL

2001-05-24 Thread Derek R. Price
And another few notes that might help convince you: 1. This patch makes no changes to the existing server 2. Nobody is required to use pserver 3. pserver isn't required to run as root Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Unsubscribe patrickl@netvision.net.il

2001-05-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Patrick Lynch wrote: Please, help me -- how do I unsubscribe from this list...I forgot my gnu password It's in the mail header of all mails from this list. As for forgetting your password, the quickest thing to do may be to wait - the mailing list mails it out to users once a month, but if

Re: Information about multiple checkouts

2001-05-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Roberts, Iwan(LIT) wrote: IMHO I believe that the main problem with CVS is that assuming we replace checkout with cvs edit in the statement below, user A marks a file for edit, user B also marks the file for edit, user A gets a notification that user B is about to edit the file, but user B

Re: vss2cvs migration of shared files

2001-05-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Laine Stump wrote: equivalent functionality in CVS. Some people emulate it by symlinking the ,v file in the repository into multiple directories, but doing so is begging for trouble, since CVS sets mutex locks on a per-directory basis to prevent multiple processes simultaneously writing to

Re: cvs_acls and Avail

2001-05-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Anita Chacko wrote: Hi Has anyone tried the cvs_acls/avail combination? I don't seem to be able to make it work.Will this work only if the script is in the /usr/local/bin/cvs_acls location? I have one more line ALL $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commit_prep2 -r in my commitinfo,but a/c to the

Re: CVS and Solaris 8.x For Intel

2001-05-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Jim Urban writes: I am new to CVS. I just downloaded Solaris 8.x (for intel x86) from Sun for our server. Which version of CVS do I need? I only see Solaris for Sparc, not intel x86. I think you need to download the source and build it yourself. And I'd love to

Re: Information about multiple checkouts

2001-05-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: Some of the patches Noel mentioned are intended to prevent two non-determined users from editing the same file at the same time. The editor information is also available to anybody using the 'cvs watchers' command. Technically, it's the 'cvs editors' command although

Re: problem to make WinCVS connect to my Linux CVS server

2001-05-24 Thread Derek R. Price
Pedro Henrique Ponchio wrote: I try several options, but no one works at all ... BTW, the curious thing is that on my Linux servers, everything is running well, the cvs init, checkout, import, etc etc Please, what should I do to make the things happen in the windows side too? What

Re: CVS SSL

2001-05-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 00:44:41 (-0400), Derek R. Price wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS SSL Why does this have to be made so difficult? Writing an RSH wrapper was my first idea. It turned out to be difficult because CVS expects RSH to handle the 'setuid

Re: Help....

2001-05-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Ingolf Steinbach writes: Do you have a pointer to information on which commands are affected? We have used this method for a while on a busy CVS server without encountering any porblems. Would it make sense to modify these assertions for future CVS releases such

Re: How to get list of tags?

2001-05-23 Thread Derek R. Price
A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2001, Derek R. Price wrote: A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: I second that. I inherited a source repository where people have been using CVS but didn't really know how (well, maybe I don't either; and yes, I have read the Coriolis book). I

Re: CVS Server running in Windows

2001-05-23 Thread Derek R. Price
George F. Gross wrote: Hi, According to CVS' site the Windows version is experimental. Well, I've downloaded CVS 1.11.1p1 source and compiled it to Windows 2000 with Interix 2.2 without problems (in fact, I just had to comment out all the references to file systems links in filesubr.c).

Re: ...::: INETD x XINETD ?? Cvs server problem :::...

2001-05-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: service cvspserver { port= 2401 socket_type = stream protocol= tcp wait= no user= root passenv = PATH server = /usr/local/bin/cvs server_args = -f --allow-root=/usr/cvsroot pserver } (If cvspserver is

Re: CVS SSL

2001-05-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Wednesday, May 23, 2001 at 10:30:22 (-0400), Derek R. Price wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS SSL Yes there is. The connection can no longer be sniffed. Stealing a user's password would now require access to the user's machine to read the .cvspass file. Maybe

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