CVSRepositories

[Joe McCarty]

I have installed RANCID and CVSWeb on a Fedora Core 2 box.  RANCID is  
fully funcitonal--it can log into my devices, get the configs, increment  
versions, and email diffs.

I have the following lines in cvsweb.conf pointing to my RANCID CVS  
repository:

@CVSrepositories = (
#        'local'   => ['Local Repository', '/var/cvs'],
#       'freebsd' => ['FreeBSD',          '/var/ncvs'],
#       'openbsd' => ['OpenBSD',          '/var/ncvs'],
#       'netbsd'  => ['NetBSD',           '/var/ncvs'],
#       'ruby'    => ['Ruby',             '/var/anoncvs/ruby'],
         'rancid'  => ['Rancid',           '/home/rancid/var/rancid/CVS'],
);

# The default CVS root.  Note that @CVSrepositories is list, not a hash,
# so you'll want to use 2 * 0-based-index-number here; or set this directly
# to the default's symbolic name. Unless specified, the first valid one in
# @CVSrepositories is used as the default.
#
# For example:
#
#$cvstreedefault = $CVSrepositories[2 * 0];
$cvstreedefault = 'rancid';

Pointing my browser at http:/foo.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi, I draw an error  
message, "Error: No valid CVS roots found! See @CVSrepositories in the  
configuration file (/etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf)."

log/httpd/error_log states, "Root '/home/rancid/var/rancid/CVS' defined in  
@CVSrepositories is not a directory, entry ignored at  
/var/www/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 491."

The referenced line in cvsweb.cgi is in the following block:

     483 # CVS roots
     484 #
     485 my $rootfound = 0;
     486 for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@CVSrepositories); $i += 2) {
     487   my $key = $CVSrepositories[$i];
     488   my ($descr, $root) = @{$CVSrepositories[$i+1]};
     489   $root = canonpath($root);
     490   unless (-d $root) {
     491     warn("Root '$root' defined in \@CVSrepositories is not a  
directory, " .
     492          'entry ignored');
     493     next;
     494   }

/home/rancid/var/rancid/CVS is indeed a directory, and is the root of the  
RANCID CVS tree.  An evironmental variable "CVSROOT" is define for root,  
pointing at this folder.  What is my error, and what is the fix?

Thanks!

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