CVS installation

CVS installation

Install CVS on the development server

Download the CVS tar ball

(http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/pub/gnu/non-gnu/cvs/cvs-1.12.13.tar.gz)

Extract the CVS tar ball.

Change directory into the installer directory

Issues the command ‘./configure –prefix=/usr’

Issue the command ‘make’

Become root (su - )

Issues the command ‘make install’

Add user ‘cvs’

Become user ‘cvs’ (su – cvs)

Issues ‘mkdir ~cvs/cvshome’

Issues ‘cd ~cvs/cvshome’

Issues ‘cvs –d /home/cvs/cvshome init’

Become root (su -)

Create file /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver (for red hat)

Add user to the cvs

become the user ‘cvs’ (su – cvs)

issues ‘~/bin’

create a file ‘crypt.pl with the content, to /home/cvs/bin

chmod the crypt.pl file to 755 ( chmod 755 crypt.pl)

to create a user, issues a command “echo username:`crypt.pl password`:cvs >> /home/cvs/cvshome/CVSROOT/passwd