Question on CVS Branches

[Chuck Swiger]

Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
[ ... ]
>> 6-sec% touch ~/.cvspass
>> 7-sec% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.de.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs login
>> Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.de.freebsd.org:2401/home/ncvs
>> CVS password:
>>
>> [ Use "anoncvs" for the password. ]
>>
>> 8-sec% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.de.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
>> cvs server: Updating src
>> U src/COPYRIGHT
>> U src/MAINTAINERS
>> U src/Makefile
>> U src/Makefile.inc1
>> U src/README
>> U src/UPDATING
>> cvs server: Updating src/bin
>> ^C...
> 
> 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?

I had to enter the password for the "cvs login"; the CVS checkout operation did 
not require a password.

-- 
-Chuck