Question on CVS Branches

[Alexander Farber]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:33:37AM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> This looks like you still have to type in the password from the terminal.
> I would like to update the source each night from a cron job.
> Is there really no way to do that?
> 
> With OpenBSD i can simply do:
> 
> # export CVSROOT=anoncvs at anoncvs.de.openbsd.org:/cvs
> # cvs co -rOPENBSD_3_3 src/sys
> cvs server: Updating src/sys
> U src/sys/Makefile
> cvs server: Updating src/sys/adosfs
> U src/sys/adosfs/adlookup.c
> U src/sys/adosfs/adosfs.h
> U src/sys/adosfs/adutil.c
> U src/sys/adosfs/advfsops.c
> U src/sys/adosfs/advnops.c
> cvs server: Updating src/sys/altq
> ^C
> 
> without the need to type in a password.
> 
> Seems i have to use CVSUP on FreeBSD..

No, I use cvs to update FreeBSD and OpenBSD on my dual 
boot PC and both work fine and without having to type 
the password. Maybe remove ~/.cvs* and try again with:

        cvs -d $CVSROOT login
	cvs -d $CVSROOT -q up ......