Thanks Jonathan. That helps me understand it. I don't know much about CVS and was assuming it had to run as a daemon for the clients to use it
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Jonathan Perkin <[email protected]> wrote: > * On 2014-12-09 at 21:38 GMT, Mark Creamer via smartos-discuss wrote: > > > We have an old CVS repository that needs to stay around for a while > longer, > > currently stored on a Linux server. Everything else lives on Git now, but > > for this one since I need to maintain it, I at least want to move it to a > > SmartOS zone. I installed cvs from the pkg repo but there is no service > > running. I then thought it might be cvsd I need to install and did that, > > but still nothing. I then ran /opt/local/sbin/cvsd to see if it just > needs > > to be started manually, but no process by that name is running. Is there > > anything special I should be doing to run CVS on this zone? > > It's rare that you'd want to use the native CVS daemon, which is > likely why nobody has done the work to integrate an SMF for the native > support. By far the most common ways to access CVS these days are: > > - Read-write via CVS_RSH=ssh, which requires nothing other than an > account on the machine in question and perhaps a shared group if > there are N>1 users writing to the files. In this mode the cvs > program is simply executed via ssh and acts as the server. > > - Anonymous read-only via anoncvs, usually using one of the forks of > anoncvssh.c, e.g. the OpenBSD setup available here: > > http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.shar > > If it turns out that the old pserver stuff is still useful we can look > at integrating support for it. > > -- > Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com > -- Mark ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
