setup r cmds issues/problem

[RDSweb]

Hi guys,

Sorry to post this one but suffering a brain dead moment. I have fedora 16 running on my workstation at work. This week I have to start making changes to some files that are kept in company cvs servers. I have setup my CVSROOT and CVS_RSH. So now when I enter the following cmd I get the following;
$ cvs co sudoers
poll: protocol failure in circuit setup
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

and when I issues the following I also get;
$ rsh cvs.domain.com 'echo $PATH'
poll: protocol failure in circuit setup

Now I know that this should be easy but again suffer a brain dead moment. Before you tell I should not be using r cmds I know the security risk but I am behind company firewall and cvs is the only thing I am using it for. I normally use ssh but again cvs.

RDSweb

[sea]

Without beeing familiar with CVS, i do 2 blueshots:
1) use the full path to sudoers to submit it, regardless the question why one would even do this
2) why echo a variable rather that just submit the variable (values) itself?

[RDSweb]

Originally Posted by sea

Without beeing familiar with CVS, i do 2 blueshots:
1) use the full path to sudoers to submit it, regardless the question why one would even do this
2) why echo a variable rather that just submit the variable (values) itself?

Hi,

The first one is using the cvs co(checkout) cmd, it will connect to the cvs server checkout the sudoers file and copy it to my workstation.

2) Was using rsh to the cvs server to display the path on the cvs server.

RDSweb

[sea]

As much (less) i know these kind of tools.. svc, svn, git, whatsoever...
They do need and URL/variable to retrieve the data.

So i assume a working code line would look like:
cvs coMMAND $URL item-to-retirieve-or-upload

This example includes both, 1) and 2), as they both require the same pattern.

PS: Note that the item needs to be absolute, regarding either remote or local structures.
EDIT PS2: the items then will be either stored on local default from remote source, or stored on remote default from given local source.

[RDSweb]

Originally Posted by sea

As much (less) i know these kind of tools.. svc, svn, git, whatsoever...
They do need and URL/variable to retrieve the data.

So i assume a working code line would look like:
cvs coMMAND $URL item-to-retirieve-or-upload

This example includes both, 1) and 2), as they both require the same pattern.

PS: Note that the item needs to be absolute, regarding either remote or local structures.
EDIT PS2: the items then will be either stored on local default from remote source, or stored on remote default from given local source.

CVSROOT is set to the cvs.domain.com and CVS_RSH is set to rsh. So when I issue the cvs co cmd it automatic use the vars to do it thing.

The problem I am having is the rsh, rexec and rlogin. I need some help to make sure I have everything set up right.

RDSweb