Subject: Re: CVS_RSH to ssh
To: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/17/2003 11:10:30
James Chacon said:

>You can set CVS_RSH to *anything* and that will not affect pserver.
>
>pserver and CVS_RSH have nothing to do with each and pserver doesn't belong
>in this conversation at all.
>
>(CVS_RSH is only picked up when CVSROOT is :ext:...)

The www.netbsd.org documentation says:

without ssh:

:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot

with ssh:

anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot

In my experience, if CVS_RSH is set, and :pserver: is specified, cvs update
will return an error.


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