Hi everyone I've installed a CVS on my VPS (Debian) using this guide

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/72

After I completed the installation i try to connect to the CVS using Eclipse, and I'm keep getting the error:

"connection refused: cvs [pserver aborted]: /home/cvs/: no such repository"

What should I do?

Thanks

Hi -

1. First verify that you can use CVS from the command line.
Here's a good link, you can find many others in Google:

http://www-mrsrl.stanford.edu/~brian/cvstutorial/
<= Just try a few simple commands to verify that your installation "works"
In particular, make sure you can do a "pserver logon"
<= substitute your actual username and hostname for "bach@faun", and your actual path for "/usr/local/cvsroot"

2. OK, the next step is to see if Eclipse is correctly configured:

http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~dquigl...eclipse&tt=cvs
http://showmedo.com/videos/video?nam...ithJava4_JohnM
http://ist.berkeley.edu/as-ag/tools/...pse-setup.html
<= Again, you can Google for many other links
They all cover the same basic material - choose whichever works best for you!

In particular, make sure you've configured your repository and pserver logon :
3. Finally, there might be connectivity issues between your Eclipse client and your CVS server (for example, a firewall might be blocking the "pserver" port 2401).

Please briefly glance at these links (no more than 15 minutes!), and please verify your basic CVS install and basic Eclipse configuration.

If this doesn't work, please post back - we'd be happy to help.

If it *does* work, please post back and let us know what resolved the problem.

Good luck .. PSM

Hi

Thank you very much for the informative replay, I have manage to connect to the CVS using this guide: http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~dquigl...eclipse&tt=cvs

I'm now connecting using extssh, is that's good? what is the difference between extssh and pserver? Any way when I try to share a project in eclipse (TEAM > Commit) I can't see the project in the Repository window.

Hi -


Cool!

If I'm understanding you correctly, you've already resolved these two steps:

1) verify your CVS installation
3) verify CVS connectivity between your client and your CVS server (if they're not on the same machine)
Correct?

The remaining step is to configure Eclipse to talk to your server. Per your original post, Eclipse thinks you're using "pserver", and your remote CVS is in "/home/cvs":"Pserver" is the original CVS protocol; by default, it uses port 2401.

"Extssh" is a different protocol, it's arguably much better.

These links should help:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/CVS_FAQ
http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~dquigl...eclipse&tt=cvs


'Hope that helps .. PSM

tal@vps:/home/cvs$ CVSROOT=/home/cvs/
tal@vps:/home/cvs$ cvs -d /home/cvs init
tal@vps:/home/cvs$ echo $CVSROOT
/home/cvs/

but for some reason the in eclipse the HEAD is empty

This is very odd I follow this tutorial : http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~dquigl...eclipse&tt=cvs

it's supposed to be easy I'm able to connect to the CVS using eclipse but the HEAD is empty I can't see the CVSROOT folder

Hi -

It *sounds* like you've got everything configured correctly, I'm not sure what the problem is.

You've checked in at least one project, haven't you? (You can do this from the Eclipse GUI). Each file in each project will have a "HEAD"; you won't see a "HEAD" unless something has been checked in.

Here's one more tutorial (with lots of great screen shots). It's "pserver" (instead of "extssh"), but it might help:

https://eclipse-tutorial.dev.java.ne...ial/part2.html

Ya I have checked the new project but still it didn't appear in the Head.

When I import a new project in Eclipse (File Import) and selecting my CVS, I can see my projects.
Is that means that the CVS is working?

HI -

Yup - that's exactly what it means!

It sounds like you got things squared away - congratulations!

Alright! Thank you for your support!