[cvsnt] /cvs/Root files: Dumb user

[Torsten Martinsen]

Bryce Schober wrote:

> OK, so we recently put our company behind a firewall, which changed 
> our cvs (pserver) server's ip.  Unfortunately, the Root file had the 
> server's name resolved to the ip, so it was no longer valid.  No 
> combination of cvs login / logout fixed it for me, so I ended up 
> deleting all of them so that I could continue working.  Now, things 
> are screwed up because I still don't have the root files.  I didn't 
> know how to get them back the right way, so now I'm copying a 
> corrected Root file around my tree.  This just seems wrong, but I 
> don't know the right way... 

It's not wrong, it's an acceptable solution given the initial mistake of 
using the IP address instead of the DNS name.
There are scripts to be found that do this automatically (sorry, don't 
have any URL).

-Torsten