Problem with cvs commit failed in cvs-freebsd setup [REVISED]

Jose Liang jliang at so-net.net.tw
Tue Mar 7 23:08:00 UTC 2006


> On 2006-03-07 16:45, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>
> Because "$CVSROOT" in your environment is not set correctly.  You have
> obviously included the string ``:local:'' somewhere in there, which is
> wrong.
>

I see. If I use pserver then "$CVSROOT" set like this:

  :pserver:jose at localhost:/home/cvs/cvsroot

is it correct?

>
> Your mailer has wrapped the text, rendering it almost useless, but
> that's ok in this case.  Please try to find out if there's an option to
> turn off this wrapping for future posts though.
> 

Sorry for my omission, I've turned it off.

> 
> This list looks ok.  I think your only problem is the wrong value of
> $CVSROOT.  Try setting CVSROOT in your environment to include *ONLY* the
> path to the CVS root directory.
> 
> For /bin/sh or GNU bash, this would be:
> 
>     $ export CVSROOT='/home/cvs/cvsroot'
> 
> For csh(1) the equivalent is:
> 
>     % setenv CVSROOT /home/cvs/cvsroot
> 
> If this works fine, then make sure you also update any shell startup
> files that include the old CVSROOT value, and you're set to go :)
> 

That's wonderful! It is working now!
Thank you for your patience and guide, thank you very much!!

Jose Liang


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