If you’ve installed the default cvs package on Debian sarge, but chose not to configure it as a CVS server, you’ve got problems when you want to correct that. So far I’ve followed these steps:
- Remove and reinstall cvs package. Didn’t help.
- Create a cvs user
- Change ownership of /var/lib/cvs to cvs user
- Add
2401 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/var/lib/cvs pserver
to /etc/inetd.conf
Hmm, nothing I tried worked. I just found another machine with no prior CVS install and made it work there.
