The first step was to install cvs, then I created a 'dev' group for use by developers and added myself to that group. Here are the commands:
13 sudo apt-get -u install cvs
16 sudo groupadd -r dev
17 sudo usermod -a -G dev devuser
The install properly created an initialized cvs repository where recommended by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard at
/srv/cvs.I then copied over all the modules in my old cvs repository on my old server with this kind of command for each module:
cd /srv/cvs
sudo scp -r devuser@oldserver:/var/cvsroot/project .
Ths cvs install had made the user:group of the files in the cvs directory root:src. I'm not thrilled about root user, but I'll leave it for now. The src group means nothing to me, so i will change it to dev with:
sudo chown -R :dev /srv/cvs
Next, I have to get pserver working so I can access cvs from my development computer. To do this, xinetd must be installed as follows:
sudo apt-get install xinetd
Then create the file
/etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver with the following content:
service cvspserver
{
port = 2401
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
user = root
wait = no
type = UNLISTED
server = /usr/bin/cvs
server_args = -f --allow-root /srv/cvs pserver
disable = no
}
Then do the following to restart the pserver:
sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
You can confirm that pserver is running with:
sudo netstat -anp --tcp --udp
and look for the line where xinetd is listening on port 2401.
Make sure all your directories in the cvs directory have the following type of permissions and ownership:
drwxrwsr-x 3 root dev 4096 2010-05-03 23:55 CVSROOT
The group permissions must be readable, writable and have the 's' for set group id, and the group must be dev, otherwise, lock file setting might fail and developers may not be able to access files in the cvs repository.
More info on setting up CVS can be found at http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/cvs-server.html
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