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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:23:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Calvin Smith <exnihilo4 AT myrealbox DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cvs repository not found
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Calvin Smith wrote:

> I am not able to get CVS working via ssh. The following illustrates my
> problem.
>
> Logged into the server machine:
>
> Calvin AT Kilimanjaro ~
> $ cvs -d /cvs checkout foo
> cvs checkout: Updating foo
> U foo/testing
>
> --
> Calvin AT Kilimanjaro ~
> $ exit
> logout
> Connection to kilimanjaro closed.
> Calvin AT Calvin ~/Desktop ~
>
> --
> And on my local machine:
>
> Calvin AT Calvin ~/Desktop
> $ cvs -d :ext:Calvin AT kilimanjaro:/cvs checkout foo
> Calvin AT kilimanjaro's password:
> cvs [server aborted]: /cvs: no such repository
> Calvin AT Calvin ~/Desktop
> $ ssh Calvin AT kilimanjaro "ls -l /cvs"
> Calvin AT kilimanjaro's password:
> total 0
> drwxrwxr-x+   3 Administ Users       12288 Mar 12 16:46 CVSROOT
> drwxrwxr-x+   2 Administ Users           0 Mar 15 14:39 foo
>
> As you can see, I can successfully check out when logged into the
> machine, and I can ssh in and do an 'ls', correctly seeing the content
> of the cvsroot, and the foo module, but for some reason CVS and SSH
> aren't playing well together.
>
> Any ideas??
> thanks,
> calvin

Are you running Cygwin's ssh and cvs (i.e., "type -a cvs ssh")?  Is your
CVS_RSH set correctly?  What are the contents of your ~/.cvsrc?  What are
the contents of ~/.ssh/config?  What is the shell of Calvin AT kilimanjaro
set to (in /etc/passwd on kilimanjaro)?

Next step is to try actually executing "cvs server" via ssh.  Run "echo -e
'Root /cvs\nnoop' | cvs server" from kilimanjaro first, and then from
Calvin via ssh -- make sure you get the same response from both.  If that
response is "E Cannot access /cvs/CVSROOT\nerror ...", then see what the
"error" line says.  If the response is "ok" instead, try playing with the
shell for Calvin on kilimanjaro to see what commands are actually sent
when executing the "cvs" command on the client...
	Igor
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