Cryptic CVS Setup

The following is a little cryptic, being notes I made for myself as I was settiing up a server.

On CVS server machine

Create cvs user in /etc/passwd; home dir will be CVS repository.
Also create the directory if not done above. adduser cvs will do all the above, except the password. There should be an invalid password; nobody will use this ID.
cd to CVS repository.
Use cvs init command to make the repository.
Create cvs password/user mapping file. Run the cvspwd program in the CVSROOT directory of the repository! Map all users to real user cvs (though I think this unnecessary if server runs as user cvs)
cvspwd was from GlassFish Networking, but the address no longer works
Add cvspserver line to /etc/services, set as
```
cvspserver 2401/tcp
```

The CVS server needs to be enabled, and the steps differ based upon whether your system uses ineted or xinetd.

Inetd Systems

Add cvspserver line to /etc/inetd.conf. I use the line

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

Xinetd Systems

For xinetd users, copy the following into the file /etc/xinted.d/cvspserver:

default: on
description: The cvs server allows access to a CVS repository.
service cvspserver
{
        enable  = yes
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = cvs
        server          = /usr/bin/cvs
        server_args     = --allow-root=/home/cvs pserver
        log_on_failure  += USERID
        only_from = 192.168.0.0/20
}

Restart inetd or xinetd to use new facility.
telnet <server machine> 2401 to verify server is working!

Server Repository Layout

Create the top level directories on the server. Owner + permissions set too.
Add entries for the top level directories in modules file
To add further structure, check out a module,
cd into that directory, add directories, files etc.
Use cvs add to put those into the repository.
On client side, create this directory layout.

All on the client side

Create the directory in the CVS tree to which the source will be added.
Find the virgin source, NOT in the above location.

Use this to import the sources:

cd <directory with source to add>
cvs import -m "Import of mswordview v0.5.7" external/MSwordview/mswordview MS_WORD_VIEW WORD_VIEW_0_5_7

where the last two are tags (strings, I suspect).

Then go to CVS tree, and cvs update to get the source.