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Experience with CVS on a clustered filesystem

I would be interested in any experiences using CVS on a clustered file system with mulitple servers accessing it. I guess this is similar to what providers like SourceForge do. Currently we use a RHEL based CVS server with an ext3 repository…
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How do I retrieve or setup a password in CVS pserver?

I currently using a CVS pserver for code management here at work. However, I forgot what my password was. Is there a way I can reset my password? I am pretty sure the password is encrypted in some manner (perhaps MD5?). I did do a search for similar…
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CVS command to list all available modules to checkout?

I'm running CVS in a bash shell. I'm just trying to see which modules are available for checkout. I've been researching for a while and the only thing I've come up with is: cvs checkout -c which executes but shows nothing. Now I know its possible…
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How to cache authentication in Linux using PAM/Kerberos authentication (for CVS)?

We have several Linux servers that authenticate Linux user passwords on our Windows Active Directory Server using PAM and Kerberos 5. The Linux distro we use is CentOS 6. On one system, we have several Version Control Systems like CVS and…
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cvs flags question

What does -PAd mean when I use in conjunction with cvs update?
Andrei Chikatilo
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CVS: see log of last n commits

How can I see a list of the last n commits to a CVS repository? Thanks!
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Authenticate CVS users against Active Directory

I have a mixed Linux/Windows software development environment where the Linux clients are migrating to a system where they are able to authenticate against Active Directory. (That part I figured out) Our lab is currently using CVS to conduct…
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Automatically add text on CVS Commit?

I was curious if there was a way to add a hook or something into CVS so that when you commit a text file or into CVS, it will add a certain string at the end of the file? For example, say something like: "Committed by Joe Schmoe on 03/11/2010"
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Checking out a file from CVS repository

I am trying to get a copy of some files from a repository and am having an issue with the last command they have listed on the website. Here is the commands they gave me. $ touch .cvspass $ echo "/1…
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cvs accidentaly breaks rcs file

I have an cvs server with pretty big binray file (about 50Mb) and its rcs file is about 2G Today I discovered that file update returns an error: cvs [update aborted]: unexpected EOF reading /repository/cvsroot/dir/file,v I checked the cvs server…
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CVS authentication with openldap

I have migrated the CVS from Windows to Linux and imported the repo's as needed. Now I have to setup ldap authentication ( Remote Server/Linux/Open LDAP ) for CVS. As per other blogs, it says we have to setup a service in /etc/pam.d/ for cvs. So I…
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Create CVS user when a LDAP user is created

I am running ubuntu LDAP server and also CVS is installed on the server. I had to migrate my ldap server to the new ubuntu edition and it's migrated. I will be using webmin to administer some things. In the webmin there is an option to select so…
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CVS checkout from a partial repository

I have a partial CVS repository - a copy of a subfolder within the master repository, and I'd like to do a checkout of head. I've tried doing this directly: $ cvs -d /path/B2MEj/ co B2MEj cvs [checkout aborted]: /path/B2MEj/CVSROOT: No such file or…
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CVSNT to CVSNT Migrations

Has anybody re-homed a CVSNT installation? I need to take a CVSNT setup on one ageing server and relocate it to a new shiny server, but i don't have a great deal of experience with this software. Does anyone know the basic process for moving an…
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speeding up cvs pserver over WAN

I have a remote location with 5 developers that are using a CVS (pserver) repository in main office via WAN, but the bandwidth i have is only a couple of hundred kbps so CVS operations are fairly slow. Is there any way to speed this up? I can rsync…
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