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Really removing CVS files from a module

Someone in my development team committed a huge intermediate file into our CVS repository (run as Client-Server configuration where I have no server-side access). I have "cvs removed" the file, but the existence of this file seriously slows down…
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What software should I use for CVS server?

We are upgrading our CVS server from an old Windows 2003 box with an ANCIENT CVS server installed on it, to a shiny new server with Windows 2008 R2. Any recommendations / shared experiences with a particular CVS server software to use? Any special…
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Prevent new CVS repositories

I have a CVS-repository, which should be continued to be used for old projects (commits, etc. should be allowed). However, I want to disable the creation of new repositories. First thing I tried, was to set the root-CVS-folder to read-only, but now…
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CVS ignores setgid bit on directories

I administer a CVS server (CVS 1.11.23 on CentOS 6.9, with SELinux disabled). I set the setgid bit on all repository directories, as this page suggests, so that new files and directories are owned by the cvs group, regardless of who commits them: $…
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CVS override CVS/Root

We have a server that we host web-solutions on, they are updatede on the server with CVS. About 4 people need access to the server and the ability to update the web-solutions through CVS. When I checkout the web-solution the CVS/Root is set to…
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How to do SSH authentication and CVS update automatically from cron job?

I call a script from cron job. In the script it needs to run CVS commands to update from a remote repository. To do that, it needs to SSH authenticate. I put the following code in the script ... ROOTPATH="/Users/qazwsx/project/" cd…
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xinetd service: OK to change user? (cvs pserver)

Legacy Source Control: CVS under xinetd We have a team that uses legacy source control: cvs. We run cvs pserver under xinetd (config file below). Audit Flag A security audit raised a flag: "make sure the cvs server does not run under…
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Why won't CVS allow user login (on a Synology server)?

I'm trying to set up a CVS server on my synology NAS, but am getting a recurring error in actually accessing the cvs via login. I'm also posting this on the synology server, but thought that I'd post here as it's probably more of a CVS issue than a…
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Jenkins CVS Configuration

I'm running Jenkins from a Tomcat7 installation on a Solaris box and attempting to connect to a CVS repository on a remote machine with SSH. I'm getting a failure with this stack trace: Building in workspace…
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Can not access a CVS repository over a network

i have a computer that has windows xp i install cvsnt on it and i create a repository in c:\test_repository i connected to it locally import a program to it updating and committing it every thing work fine now i want to access this repo. from…
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Multiple users using same CVS repository on server

We use CVS to hold many of our configuration files for applications. We have been trying to standardize on a location to hold each of them, and when initially setup, they work great ;) our basic process is this.. as user APP1 mkdir /configs/ cd…
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CVS Access +Windows XP

I have installed CVS server cvsnt-2.5.03.2382.msi. I am getting below error while connecting using eclipse "I/O has been interrupted.Timeout while reading from input streamThe most likely cause of the interrupt is either an intermittent network…
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CVS does not run properly as nonroot user

I get an "rejected acces to DIR for user USER" message, when I try an "cvs login" to my local cvs... BUT everything works just fine, when cvs is set to run as root... Im running FreeBSD 7.2, here is my config: /etc/inetd.conf: cvspserver stream …
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CVSROOT problem because of username string

I have always been SVN user but currently I have to use CVS as the source repository. I am quite new to CVS and really got confused many a times (reason being I always tried to access CVS like SVN !) However now I am really stuck in one problem…
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CVS & executable PHP

I have a CVS on Debian and apache/PHP/MySql. I remember when i worked in a team over the net a wile ago, that after commit i could see the changes on the web server in the php application. How can I achieve this? Thanks
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