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Re: FW: still having problems


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: FW: still having problems
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:52:50 -0500 (EST)

Hanser, Kevin writes:
> 
> Yes, its a bug (IMHO).  If you restart inetd from the command prompt it
> inherits your environmental variables.  CVS gloms onto them and tries to
> read the defaults in the home directory of the user you started inetd as...
>
> So the solution is to restart, and/or not run inetd from the command line.
> Shouldn't that be in the FAQ or docs somewhere?

As far as I know, this only happens under Linux and I consider it to be
a bug in Linux, not CVS.  Nonetheless, the current development version
of CVS ignores $HOME when running in server mode which should avoid the
problem in the future.

-Larry Jones

I've got an idea for a sit-com called "Father Knows Zilch." -- Calvin



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