Hello Bob!

Jul 26 10:39 03, Bob Jones wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BJ> Thanks for the note.  Turns out I was getting bit by SourceForge's 
 BJ> split of cvs activity between the primary and backup CVS server.  For 
 BJ> some reason, I still can only access the primary CVS server if I 
 BJ> specify a long command line option (using -d).  Otherwise, I end up 
 BJ> on the (default) backup CVS server, that is read-only and contains 
 BJ> data up to 24 hours old.  :(

Maybe it's CVSROOT=... or CVS_ROOT=... i really can't remember, longtime
since i have been using CVS.

 BS>> Jul 25 11:42 03, Bob Jones wrote to Bo Simonson:
 BS>>                                              ^- My name is Simons_e_n 
 BS>> :-)

 BJ> Appologies, and thanks.  :(    I think I've started to type your name 
 BJ> right when I have to enter it.....    In Netmail, the nodelist lookup 
 BJ> helps me keep it correct.  In echo mail, I don't get that feature.  
 BJ> :(  Spelling is my achileas (sp?) heal....  I'm usually consistant in 
 BJ> my (mis)spelling, so we shall see if I've got your name
"programmed" 
 BJ> in my memory correctly at some point in the future....  [Now, I 
 BJ> *thought* I double checked the name for spelling when I entered it.  
 BJ> :(                  ]

I wrote it only for fun :)

 BJ>> I'm seeing 'cvs : CVSROOT "" must be
an absolute pathname' 
 BJ>> and 
 BJ>> 'cvs : warning: skipping invalid entry in
password file at 
 BJ>> line 1' as error messages while using CVS with sourceforge.  

 BS>> Oh you shouldn't care about that.

 BJ> Something I did finally solved that one.....  Ah, I edited out an 
 BJ> entry in ~/.cvspass that I erroneously created when I first tried to 
 BJ> use CVS on that account / box.

Okey.

 BJ>> I've got CVSROOT defined as:

 BJ>>
CVSROOT=:psserver:{at}cvs.maximus.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/max
 BJ>> imus

 BJ>> where  is my sourceforge username.....

 BS>> Should be
 BS>> CVSROOT=:pserver:{at}cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/maximus 

 BJ> This still will only (default) to using the backup sourceforge CVS 
 BJ> server, which is a read-only server.

Ok.. but did you fix it out?

 BS>> Afair does sourceforge requrie that you put your keys 
 BS>> into them, go into your profile thing on sourceforge 
 BS>> there is the possiblity.

 BJ> That's what I used, and takes 6 hours to migrate ones SSH keys to all 
 BJ> of the sourceforge machines.....  Based on testing, this part was and 
 BJ> is working fine.

Ok.

 BJ> Thanks for the thoughts.

No problem.

Regards,
Bo

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