CentOS - Aug 2007 - can't login to remote cvs server

Hi Everyone,

I have, for the first time, installed and minimally configured a cvs
server on a CentOS 5 box.  I followed a "how to" to do the initial
configuration, so I'm sure I haven't done anything wrond (according to
the "how to", anyway).  But, I keep getting this error:

$ CVSROOT=:pserver:ksandhu at kermit:/var/cvs/asterisk
$ cvs login
Logging in to :pserver:ksandhu at kermit:2401/var/cvs/asterisk
CVS password:
/var/cvs/asterisk: no such repository

/var/cvs/asterisk exists, and it's been initialized like so:

sudo cvs -d /var/cvs asterisk init

I also created "cvsuser" and "cvsadmin", which I've used
to set
permissions and ownership on /var/cvs/asterisk:

drwxrwsr-x 3 cvsuser cvsadmin 4096 Aug 20 14:00 /var/cvs/asterisk

I'm stumped.  I can't figure out why cvs keeps saying the repository
doesn't exist.  I'm missing something critical, obviously.

Does anyone have any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?

Regards,

Ranbir

-- 
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 
14:55:33 up 10 days, 8:53, 4 users, load average: 0.58, 0.44, 0.26

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:05 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
wrote:
> I'm stumped.  I can't figure out why cvs keeps saying the
repository
> doesn't exist.  I'm missing something critical, obviously.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?
I figured it out.  Since I setup a couple of repositories, I had to
change the existing --allow-root parameter in /etc/xinetd.d/cvs
from /var/cvs to /var/cvs/asterisk, and add another one for the other
repository.  So, the server_args line now looks like this:

server_args         = -f --allow-root=/var/cvs/asterisk
--alow-root=/var/cvs/openser pserver

I restarted xinetd after the change, and then logging into the cvs repos
worked just fine.

I hope that helps someone in the future.

Regards,

Ranbir
-- 
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 
12:28:29 up 11 days, 6:26, 3 users, load average: 0.48, 0.13, 0.05