NYCPHP Meetup

[Joseph Crawford]

Daniel, if you can get it posted on the NYPHP site i can create a
walkthrough for getting this setup not as difficult as i thought it
was going to be ;)


On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:42:50 -0700 (PDT), Chris Shiflett
<shiflett at php.net> wrote:
> --- Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone here use zde and have used the CVS feature for a
> > sourceforge cvs account?
> 
> Nope, but I have experience with SF's CVS setup.
> 
> > i have found out that on windows
> 
> I have no experience with Windows, however.
> 
> > you need to do port forwarding via putty and connect putty to
> > the ssh server for the CVS to work
> 
> I don't really understand why you need to do any port forwarding unless
> you're talking about a local firewall or something. But yes, I think puTTY
> is the ssh client of choice for Windows users.
> 
> > however sourceforge doesnt offer shell access for the cvs
> > repository just your user account
> 
> It's true that you can't exactly log in on the CVS server and get a shell,
> but you do have an account there - that's how CVS is able to work at all.
> They just do this when you log in:
> 
>      Welcome to cvs1.sourceforge.net
> 
>      This is a restricted Shell Account
>      You cannot execute anything here.
> 
>      Connection to cvs.sourceforge.net closed.
> 
> > and i have tried doing this with the user account it just
> > doesnt work.
> 
> With Linux, you just need two environment variables (or use command line
> flags to set them) for CVS:
> 
> export CVSROOT='yourname at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot'
> export CVS_RSH='ssh'
> 
> I know that people who use Windows to connect to a secure CVS server use
> puTTY for the CVS_RSH somehow, likely by specifying the full path to it.
> The CVSROOT should be the same.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Chris
> 
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