1. 數位芝麻網路公司 蔡志展 <chihchun@digitalsesame.com> 2001/8/18
CVS Setup
數位芝麻網路公司
蔡志展
2001/8/18

2. Telling CVS where your repository is
There are several ways to tell CVS where to find the repository. You can name the repository on the command line explicitly, with the -d (for "directory") option:
cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot

3. Telling CVS where your repository is
Or you can set the $CVSROOT environment variable to an absolute path to the root of the repository, `/usr/local/cvsroot' in this example. To set $CVSROOT, csh and tcsh users should have this line in their `.cshrc' or `.tcshrc' files:
CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsroot
export CVSROOT

4. Creating a repository
To create a repository, run the cvs init command. It will set up an empty repository in the CVS root specified in the usual way
cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init

5. :method:[[user][:password]@]hostname[:[port]]/path/to/repository
Remote repositories
Your working copy of the sources can be on a different machine than the repository. Using CVS in this manner is known as client/server operation. You run CVS on a machine which can mount your working directory, known as the client, and tell it to communicate to a machine which can mount the repository, known as the server. Generally, using a remote repository is just like using a local one, except that the format of the repository name is:

6. Connecting with rsh
CVS uses the `rsh' protocol to perform these operations, so the remote user host needs to have a `.rhosts' file which grants access to the local user.
CVS_RSH
cvs -d checkout foo

7. Using the client with password authentication
To run a CVS command on a remote repository via the password-authenticating server, one specifies the pserver protocol, optional username, repository host, an optional port number, and path to the repository. For example:
cvs -d :pserver:faun.example.org:/usr/local/cvsroot checkout someproj

8. Setting up the server for password authentication
/etc/services
/etc/inetd.conf
cvspserver 2401/tcp #CVS network server
cvspserver 2401/udp #CVS network server
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs –
--allow-root=/usr/cvsroot pserver