cvs server setup

[Hans Horn]

Folks,

can anybody point me to some current doc on how to setup a cvs server
under cygwin?

The info I was able to find on the web dated back to the early 2000s
suggesting:

1. add line to /etc/inetd.conf:

cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /bin/cvs cvs -f --allow-root=/cvs/root
pserver

with /cvs/root being the cvs root dir.


2. add line to /etc/services:

cvspserver 2401/tcp #CVS server


3. run:

inetd --install-as-service
cygrunsrv -S inetd



an attempt to have a cvs client connect to the cvs server failed with a
message in /var/inetd.log:

someone wants cvspserver
accept, ctrl 3
+ Closing from 13
7264 execl /bin/cvs
7264 reaped, status 0x100


thx. a bunch,
H.

[David Billinghurst]

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[Charles Wilson]

Post by David Billinghurst

Post by Hans Horn
can anybody point me to some current doc on how to setup a cvs server
under cygwin?

I run an sshd server under cygwin and access cvs using ssh. This was
easy to do --- once I read the documentation. This provides remote
access for file transfer (scp and rsync), other source code control
systems (svn and hg), etc with a single service and firewall rule.

Yes, using the cvs pserver is not really supported on cygwin. There
have been sporadic reports that it works (and that it doesn't) -- but
you're basically on your own (but try this:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/cvsserver.html ).

It's both more secure and easier to just set up an ssh server, and use
the :ext: protocol instead.

--
Chuck
cygwin cvs maintainer