What's it all about, Alfie?

Today I needed to change our CVS pserver from an old Sun workstation to a linux box because some goobers at work decided to change the network taps on the Sun box and hook it to a non-responsive network port. Thanks, guys. Anyway, I took this opportunity to move the pserver from this old Sun workstation to a linux Blade in the server room. The steps are pretty simple.

First, make sure that /etc/services has the following line in it:

    cvspserver      2401/tcp

Then in the directory /etc/xinetd.d create a file called cvspserver and in it place:

    # default: off
    # description: A CVS pserver
    service cvspserver
    {
        disable = no
        socket_type = stream
        protocol = tcp
        user = root
        wait = no
        server = /usr/bin/cvs
        server_args = -f --allow-root=/path/to/your/cvsroot pserver
        log_on_success += USERID
        log_on_failure += USERID
    }

and then restart xinetd with:

    service xinetd restart

That's it. It works just as well as a pserver on Solaris because it's the same bloody thing. Now I don't have to worry about the goobers and network taps.

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