howto: CVS server on FC2

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

People that run pserver get owned.  I suggest not doing it.  You may
want to look into cvsd:

http://tiefighter.et.tudelft.nl/~arthur/cvsd/

"cvsd  is a wrapper program for cvs in pserver mode. It  will run 'cvs
pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot  jail. 
cvsd is run as a daemon and is controlled through a  configuration
file. It is relatively easy to configure and tools are  provided for
setting up a rootjail. "

Though seriously, you don't need to run a pserver to use cvs, all my
users who use cvs at work just check in through ssh.

-miah

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:29:23AM -0400, Greg Rundlett wrote:
> 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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