[cvsnt] Confusion with Windows Device Names and PortNumbers when Specifying the Root

[Siegfried Heintze]

I'm confused: I guess you got my originally query. I received a message that
it was not delivered so I just posted again, this time in plain text instead
of HTML.


I assume you are using cygwin? Hmm... does that mean I have to make the
repository in c:/cygwin/
Thanks,
  Siegfried


-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of
Aaron Kynaston
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:36 PM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org; siegfried at heintze.com
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Confusion with Windows Device Names and PortNumbers
when Specifying the Root

Hey Siegfried - don't know if you recieved a response yet, but I have
had similiar issues -

Here's a CVSROOT that does work (notice I'm not specifiying a port -
just have the :, then a / immediately folowing it):

CVSROOT=:pserver:akynaston at 137.65.81.90:/home/repository

The other cvsroot I use for my local repository (no cvs server running,
purely local - not recommend for more than one user):

c:\z\repository

I use the second one when I'm just using my local repository - have you
been able to get it working?

>>> "Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried at heintze.com> 6/23/2004 4:21:35 PM
>>>

I'm new to CVS and nothing seems to be working.

I'm going nuts trying to understand the syntax for specifying CVSROOT
for a
windows server being accessed by a windows command line client!  (I
have
also tried WinCVS and I cannot get that to work either -- it seems be
experiencing the same problems).

I have created an empty repository and used CVSNT service control panel
to
add the repository C:\CONVEX. (The documentation did not mention this,
but
it seemed like a good idea).
 

I've tried using cygwin BASH and just plain old cmd.exe (dos command
line)
to login and nothing seems to work!
 

Here is one (of many) attempts from cmd.exe:

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs>cvs -d
:pserver:siegfried at 192.168.0.8:2401:c:/CONVEX login

cvs login: CVSROOT may only specify a positive, non-zero, integer port
(not
`2401:c:').

cvs login: Perhaps you entered a relative pathname?

cvs [login aborted]: Bad CVSROOT:
`:pserver:siegfried at 192.168.0.8:2401:c:/CONVEX'.

 
How do I specify the windows device name so it does not get confused
with
the port number?

I captured more of my failed attempts at
http://decisionchannel.revealsystems.net/cvshints.htm 


 Thanks,

    Siegfried


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