PLEASE NOTE that vger does not provice anonymous CVS anymore due to load problems. This document is provided as a general reference only. --zaitcev 1999/04/21 -------------------- I've setup anonymous CVS on vger.rutgers.edu. This allows anyone to do any read-only CVS operations they like on the vger CVS tree. I've only just set it up this evening, so there may be problems. If you strike a problem then please let me know (preferably soon as I will be going away for a week on Monday). To use it do the folowing: 1) You need a reasonably recent version of CVS. Probably anything after 1.8 will do. 2) The very first time you use anonymous CVS you need to login. You only ever need to do this once as CVS will create a .cvspass file in your home directory which records the "password". To login do this: cvs -d :pserver:cvs@vger.rutgers.edu:/cvsroot login at the password prompt type "cvs". 3) when you wish to check something out, for example the whole linux tree, use this: cvs -d :pserver:cvs@vger.rutgers.edu:/cvsroot co linux this should create a local cvs tree called linux, containing the linux sources. 4) to update the tree to the latest version just cd to the directory you want to update and run cvs update -d All normal cvs commands should work. See your cvs manual for details. For those of you behind firewalls, you will need access to TCP port 2401 on vger from your machine. Once this system has been tested for a bit then maybe we'll announce it more widely. If anyone who has a vger account is interested in knowing how this is setup while keeping vger secure look in /vger/u4/pserver/. In particular, the cvs commands run chrooted and as uid "nobody". rsync is used to keep the mirror of the repository uptodate. Cheers, Andrew -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Andrew Tridgell Dept. of Computer Science email: tridge@samba.anu.edu.au Australian National University Phone: +61 6 254 8209 Fax: +61 6 249 0010 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-