Re: xinetd and CVS?

[Derek R. Price]

Thorsten Heit wrote:

> After fiddling a lot with the configuration it was indeed the
> fact that $HOME is set to /root when xinetd was (re-)started.
>
> Solution:
> Insert a simple "export HOME=/" into /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd and
> then restart the daemon..... *grm*
>
> > >     server_args     = -f --allow-root=/cvs/golk pserver
>
> It was confusing me almost two days because I thought the flag "-f"
> tells cvs _not_ to read any configuration info...?

Don't know what you're doing differently, but '-f' was enough for me.
In fact, I didn't have to change anything at all after the RedHat 7
install converted my inetd.conf.  The text of my
/etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver:

    # Converted by inetdconvert
    service cvspserver
    {
     socket_type  = stream
     protocol  = tcp
     wait   = no
     user   = root
     server   = /usr/bin/cvs
     server_args  = -f --allow-root=/usr/lib/cvs
     disable   = no
    }

Derek

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