Re: Too Frequently Asked Question of info-cvs mailing list

[Larry Jones]

Alexey Mahotkin writes:
> 
> A: Workaround: You could create small .sh-file:

That may not work -- the problem might well be that there's no -f global
option on the pserver line in inetd.conf rather than that $HOME is set
in the environment.

> This is caused by misfeature in CVS.  :pserver: does not have home
> directory and should not try to use it.  There exist patches that fix
> that behaviour, if you wish to get rid of that problem once and for
> all.

This is misleading -- the user pserver is running on behalf of has a
home directory and pserver may well want to use it.  And note that the
current development version ignores $HOME when running as a server.

-Larry Jones