[Cvsnt] cvsweb: Error: Failed to spawn GNU rlog on......SOLUT

[Jones, David G]

For cvswebnt to work you need to specify a separate lock directory in the
CVSROOT/config file:

--8<--

# Put CVS lock files in this directory rather than directly in the
repository.
LockDir=d:\cvslocks

--8<--

Create this directory and lock files will be placed there.

You need to do this because you'll have (rightly) set up the account that
cvsWebNT runs under to have read only access to the repository - hence it's
unable to create lock files.  By using the LockDir you can grant *full
control* to everyone on 'd:\cvslocks' and cvswebnt will be able to create
the lock files it needs.

hth

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Arvind Raman [mailto:arvind_raman_tech at yahoo.com]
Sent: 07 July 2002 06:57
To: Arthur Barrett; CVSNT
Cc: matthew arnison
Subject: RE: [Cvsnt] cvsweb: Error: Failed to spawn GNU rlog
on......SOLUTION (and a small problem of my own)


Arthur,

Thanks a lot for your help. Well I orginally was
working with the same zip file that you sent, so the
rcs distribution files definitely were not the
problem. Thanks to Mathew who sent me a RCS file which
was getting "rlogged" i discovered what the problem
was.
Any RCS file has an entry similar to this for each
revision of the file

date    2000.03.10.12.32.30;author arvind;state Exp;

If the name of the author is a numerical value for
instance the employee number of an organization, rlog
seems to fail. So the same line if changed as shown
below seems to fail.

date    2000.03.10.12.32.30;author 1000;state Exp;

After making the above change rlog has been working
perfectly fine, BUT i seriously feel that this is an
issue and definitely needs to be fixed.

I am now able to view the revisions and sort the
revisions of the file but when I click on the revision
number to view the file I get the following error.

Error: Unexpected output from cvs co: cvs [checkout
aborted]: EOF in value in RCS file
c:\cvs\ExerciseRoot\exercise\100027\src/main.c,v
Check whether the directory
c:/cvs/ExerciseRoot/CVSROOT exists and the script has
write-access to the CVSROOT/history file if it exists.
The script needs to place lock files in the directory
the file is in as well.

cvs -dc:/cvs/ExerciseRoot co -p -r1.3
"exercise/100027/src/main.c"

I am trying to work on the following problem now. If
you have any suggestions do let me know.

Thanks a lot Mathew for the help. Without that file I
guess I would have never figured it out :)

regards
Arvind


--- Arthur Barrett <arthur.barrett at march-hare.com>
wrote:
> Arvind,
>
> I have not seen this particular error message from
> rlog before.
>
> However problems with "failed to spawn GNU rlog on"
> are commonly reported.
> I have always the same copy of rcstools which always
> seems to work.
>
> Try this copy of rlog instead.
>
> Regs,
>
>
> Arthur Barrett
>  <<rcs57nt.zip>>
>
> > ----------
> > From: 	Arvind Raman
> > Sent: 	Saturday, July 6, 2002 9:12 PM
> > To: 	CVSNT
> > Subject: 	[Cvsnt] cvsweb: Error: Failed to spawn
> GNU rlog on......
> >
> > I am trying to install CvsWeb. Following is the
> > environment I am working in
> > WIN2k
> > IIS
> > CVS server for NT 1.11.1.3
> >
> > I have configured the cvsweb.conf and the
> cvweb.cgi
> > file  and am also also able to browse the
> directory
> > structure of my database, BUT any directory that
> has a
> > (RCS) file inside ouputs the following error
> message
> >
> > Error: Failed to spawn GNU rlog on
> > 'c:/cvs/ExerciseRoot/exercise/100027/src/main.c,v,
> >
>
c:/cvs/ExerciseRoot/exercise/100027/src/NewCvsFile.txt,v'
> > did you set the $ENV{PATH} in your configuration
> file
> > correctly ?
> >
> > I have rlog installed from the rcs distribution
> > referred by 'devguy'. I tried rlogging the files
> > separately from the command prompt and got the
> > following error message, though the RCS file has
> an
> > entry for the author field on line number 14.
> >
> >
> C:/cvs/ExerciseRoot/exercise/100027/src/main.c,v:14:
> > missing author
> > rlog aborted
> >
> > What is wrong in my setup ?
> >
> > regards
> > Arvind
> >
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