howto: CVS server on FC2

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

If you want to run cvs pserver, I REALLY REALLY suggest that you look
at cvsd to run it in a chroot'ed environment.

-derek

Greg Rundlett <greg at freephile.com> writes:

> I'm not a full-time admin, so I miss some of the stuff that a regular
> admin would probably be aware of.  My recent upgrade to FC2 caught me
> by surprise in a couple areas.  In particular, the former inetd server
> has been superceeded by xinetd in Fedora Core 2 and the configuration
> file format has completely changed.  You might not notice this at all,
> until you try to setup a CVS server with remote access using the
> pserver method.
>
> Even the online docs at cvshome.org mention the 'old' way of doing it.
> So if you want to allow pserver access, you need something like this
> in /etc/xinetd.d/pserver:
>
> service cvspserver
> {
>  disable            = no
>  socket_type    = stream
>  wait                = no
>  user                = cvs
>  group              = cvs
>  log_type          = FILE /var/log/cvspserver
>  protocol          = tcp
>  env                 = '$HOME=/home/cvsroot'
>  log_on_failure  += USERID
>  port                = 2401
>  server             = /usr/bin/cvs
>  server_args     = -f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsrepo pserver
> }
>
> and while I'm at it, I might as well tell you that restarting xinetd
> is as simple as
>   /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
> This little command is not mentioned frequently, but saves you from
> having to reboot the machine after changes are made.  (I really hate
> tutorials that say: "Then restart xinetd" with no mention of how to do
> that.)
>
> - Greg
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