Re: cvs server setup on RedHat 6.2

[Larry Jones]

Charlie Wu writes:
> 
> So my question boils down to this.. is it possible to install CVS
> server on my home directory without root priviledge? or.. without having
> to restart the machine if I could get the sysadmin to edit the inetd.conf
> for me

Sure.  The simplest thing to do is to use the :ext: method with rsh or
ssh rather than using pserver.  If you do want to use pserver and can
get the sysadmin to edit inetd.conf, he or she should know how to get
inetd to re-read it without having to restart the machine (usually you
just send it a SIGHUP signal).  Finally, you can run another instance of
inetd as a non-root user as long as you use a different configuration
file rather than using /etc/inetd.conf, or you can run an inetd
replacement such as Dan Bernstein's tcpserver:

        http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html

-Larry Jones

Just when I thought this junk was beginning to make sense. -- Calvin