CVS and pserver

Asked Jun 23 '15 at 18:58

Active Jun 23 '15 at 19:10

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Recently I am forced to migrate an ancient CVS installation from ubuntu to CentOS.

I am using 'cvsnt' from 'March Hare'. I am trying to reproduce this old legacy server's function on my relatively new CentOS box.

I have got cvslockd running, everything seems to be listening correctly, but after I do my export like:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:username@127.0.0.1:/somerepo
cvs login

I get the error:

cvs [login aborted]: Unknown command: `pserver'

My xinet.d conf is like:

server_args = --allow-root=/somerepo -f pserver

My question is: how can I resolve the above error and get pserver method working properly?

[root@det1svn01 testuser]# cvs info
Available protocols:

local               (internal)
server              server 2.8.01 (Soolin) Build 5590
pserver             pserver 2.8.01 (Soolin) Build 5590
sspi                sspi 2.8.01 (Soolin) Build 5590
ext                 ext 2.8.01 (Soolin) Build 5590

edited Jun 23 '15 at 19:10

Eric Renouf

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asked Jun 23 '15 at 18:58

Baazigar

How are you even inserting tab? it is escaping me out of the text field, I only got it by copy paste. – Baazigar Jun 23 '15 at 19:05
ok thanks (15 character for minimum character limit) – Baazigar Jun 23 '15 at 19:09
Where are you running cvs login? Is it on the Windows side with cvsnt? Please make it clear which machine you're running each command on. – Mikel Jun 23 '15 at 19:12
I'm running it from the same CVS server, just using 127.0.0.1. – Baazigar Jun 23 '15 at 19:13
Oh, so you're running CVSNT on CentOS? The name was confusing. :) – Mikel Jun 23 '15 at 19:14
Yes apparently it became a licensed product under 'march hare' at some point. It functions just like cvs, but has some additional features. – Baazigar Jun 23 '15 at 19:17

CVS and pserver

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