Am 04.04.2005 um 9:03 Uhr -0400 schrieb Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.:
>Ok, I just tried this (after a delay caused by trying to build 
>ethereal - more on that later) and got:
>

[...]

>MacIIvx# set CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot
>MacIIvx# cvs login
>cvs login: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
>cvs [login aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
>MacIIvx# echo $CVSROOT
>:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot

In [t]csh, 'set' sets shell variables, not environment variables.
Use "setenv CVSROOT ':pserver:...'" instead.

>MacIIvx# cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot login
>Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:2401/cvsroot
>CVS password:   (here I typed "anoncvs")
>cvs login: warning: failed to open /root/.cvspass for reading: No 
>such file or directory
>MacIIvx#

Does /root exist? Apart from that, it's probably better to do the 
checkout from a non-root account.

	hauke


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