Setting up a CVS server on Linux

A quick guide to setting up CVS on a Linux system. The instructions below were developed on a Mandrake system and may be slightly different for other distributions.

• Download and install cvs server
• Create the repository directory:
  mkdir /var/cvs
• Initialize the repository
  cvs -d /var/cvs init
• Create a group for CVS users
  groupadd cvs
• Add CVS users to group in /etc/groups
  cvs:x:501:user1,...
• For pserver access:
  • Set CVS_REPOS in /etc/cvs/cvs.conf
  • Enable pserver in /etc/xinetd.d/cvs
  • Restart xinetd
    /etc/init.d/xinetd restart