[Gllug] CVS and SSh

[Sean Burlington]

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On Tuesday 30 April 2002 6:16 pm, Simon Stewart wrote:
> Had an interesting afternoon getting to grips with CVS (something
> that's been on my "must do soon" list for ages) I've set up a CVS
> repository on our dev server[1] from source and I can login, checkout
> and update files when logged on to that machine. The problems start
> when I attempt to use either the pserver or the ext methods to connect
> to this self-same server from the comfort of my desktop.
>
> When using pserver, I can "logon" with no problems, but when I do a
> checkout, update, or any other operation the client side hangs
> beautifully. Doing an strace on the client indicates that the it's
> doing a "read" of fd 5 (which is a FIFO: one would assume to the SSH
> process) while the server side is doing a read from fd 0 (stdin, isn't
> it?) Since both sides are doing a read, nowt's happening. Killing the
> SSH process on the client gets things moving again, but it's hardly an
> elegant "solution"
>
> Now, I know that this is a known problem from a quick google about the
> web, but I was wondering what you lot suggest to get around this. FWIW:
>
> Client: cvs 1.11.1p1 (from Debian package), ssh OpenSSH_3.1p1
> Server: cvs 1.11.2 (from source), ssh OpenSSH_3.1p1
>
> I don't want to drop down to SSH 1 for obvious reasons. Advice,
> suggestions, RTFMs etc accepted (and often appreciated ;)
>
hmm ...

if you are running a ssh server you don't need to use the pserver component 
of cvs 

just export these environment variables on the client machine
CVS_RSH=ssh
CVSROOT=:ext:your.server.com:/path/to/your/cvsroot

then running cvs commands on the client will initiate an ssh connection - 
running cvs on the remote machine

it's one of those things that's so easy it is easy to miss (hard things get 
well documented)

this example uses rsh ...
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC26

another manual is at
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html



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