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From: | jim westoby |
Subject: | Help - CVS has been dumped on me! |
Date: | Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:38:20 +0100 |
Hi
(I can't get onto a news server - for some
reason it's been dead for about 2 months. Apologies if this is the wrong place
to send it - although this is what the link generated.
I've been told to look at CVS (to replace PVCS
which causes problems with the US office).
Our H/W bod has played with it and written a
few things but he's away right now and I can't get it to work at
all.
I'm using WinCVS (on NT) and the client is
installed and operational. I can login and have set CVSROOT to where I was
told.
Doing a Admin/Macro Admin/List gives
-
cvs server: cannot open /dev/null/.cvsignore: Not a directory exe/connect exe/connect lib/generic lib/generic However when I try to checkout/module on
exe/connect I get -
cvs checkout -P exe/connect (in directory C:\) cvs server: cannot open /dev/null/.cvsignore: Not a directory cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/dev/null): Not a directory *****CVS exited normally with code 1*****
******************************************** Working from the command line (not just a point & click merchant - I started on Unix). I can Telnet into the port 2401 and get rebuffed by CVS so it [the server] seems to be up and running OK. I can't Telnet into any other port on our server they're firewalled.
At the prompt I set the CVSROOT value (as before for WinCVS) and trying as before gives -
Using -d (user & server name changed for security) gives -
(I couldn't find a way of getting the module list from the command line.) Trying to login doesn't seem to work either ('can only be used with pserver method').
******************************* Basically what I would like is - A remedial description of how to checkout from the command line (to prove it works) A blow by blow description of how to checkout (exe/connect above) using WinCVS.
Once I've got started then it should be more obvious but at the moment it's just sitting there looking at me and spitting error messages which I don't know what they 'mean' to CVS. (OK I know what Not a directory means but why is it needed does this only work with superuser privilege or something?) I don't have a login (as myself or root) on the Unix box so I'm limited as to what I can do - but even just being able to say I couldn't do it because I needed a login/it was not set up correctly/etc is progress of a sort! (Spot the person covering his back here.)
Any help is appreciated, sorry it was so long but I thought complete info was called for.
jim westoby
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