cvs access problem

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

Probably because I've not done anything for ages, my box doesn't like
cvs for fedora.

In my home directory, I've opened a terminal window and typed

export CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT=:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvs/pkgs 
cd extras
cvs co common owners

cvs then throws back

no such user my_user_name in CVSROOT/passwd

(my_user_name is replaced with my actual user name)

Any ideas on what's going wrong?

TTFN

Paul
-- 
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[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 15:19 +0100, Paul wrote:
>  In my home directory, I've opened a terminal window and typed
>  
>  export CVS_RSH=ssh
>  export CVSROOT=:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvs/pkgs  
CVSROOT=:ext:[e-mail]:/cvs/pkgs

not pserver

Jeremy

[Alexander Boström]

fre 2007-10-05 klockan 10:27 -0400 skrev Jeremy Katz:
>  On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 15:19 +0100, Paul wrote:
>  > In my home directory, I've opened a terminal window and typed
>  > 
>  > export CVS_RSH=ssh
>  > export CVSROOT=:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvs/pkgs 
>  
>  CVSROOT=:ext:[e-mail]:/cvs/pkgs 
Do people actually use that variable? It just seems so impractical.

I never use it, I always use cvs -d instead, since I actually have more
than one CVS repository that I care about.

/abo

[Kevin Kofler]

Alexander Boström <abo <at> kth.se> writes:
>  > CVSROOT=:ext:user <at> cvs.fedoraproject.org:/cvs/pkgs
>  
>  Do people actually use that variable? It just seems so impractical.
>  
>  I never use it, I always use cvs -d instead, since I actually have more
>  than one CVS repository that I care about. 
I use Cervisia for all my CVS accesses.

        Kevin Kofler