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Re: CVS And Solaris
From: |
Neil Tardella |
Subject: |
Re: CVS And Solaris |
Date: |
11 Apr 2002 09:27:16 -0700 |
Are you sure cvs is in your path?
try specifying the path:
eg. ssh -l username host '/usr/local/bin/cvs'
"Steve P" <address@hidden> wrote in message news:<address@hidden>...
> First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Knowles for his fine help with my
> previous post. I wish there was a way I could rate it.
>
> Here's another scenario I need some help with: At school, we have a Solaris
> machine we do all of our schoolwork on, and, of course, it has CVS. If I'm
> at school (or communicating via SSH), I can check in / check out projects
> from my cvs root on the Solaris machine to my Solaris account.
>
> Here is where the problem comes in. I have WinCVS set up here at home and I
> want to be able to do the same thing. I have SSH set up here and I use
> WinCVS to communicate with a linux machine. Again, no problems. However,
> when I try to use WinCVS to communicate with the Solaris machine, I get the
> following error: cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file encountered. The
> settings are the same for the Linux machine and the Solaris machine (of
> course, the paths, etc. are different), but I still cannot access my
> repository on Solaris. If I do the following:
>
> ssh -l username host 'cvs' I get a "cvs: command not found"
>
> but, if I do the following:
>
> ssh -l username host 'ls' I get a list of my files. This tells me
> SSH is working correctly.
>
> My question: Has anyone encountered anything like this before? Is
> there a way for the Solaris admin to disallow this kind of file transefers
> from one machine to another (in other words, turn off "cvs" from external
> machines)? Is there a way to check?
>
> Thank you very much in advanced,
>
> Steve