Move CVS

Instruction for Move CVS to different box or backup CVS - CentOS

1,  install CVS
 yum install cvs

2, create cvs group and user
useradd -G cvs cvs

3, set CVSROOT environment variable

CVSROOT=/cvs/CVSROOT/
export CVSROOT

4, generate CVSROOT
cvs -d /cvs/CVSROOT init

5 setup the CVS server. It will be launched by Xinetd
[root@NTRCVS ~]# vim /etc/xinetd.d/cvs
# default: off
# description: The CVS service can record the history of your source \
#              files. CVS stores all the versions of a file in a single \
#              file in a clever way that only stores the differences \
#              between versions.
service cvspserver
{
        disable                 = no
        port                    = 2401
        socket_type             = stream
        protocol                = tcp
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        passenv                 = PATH
        server                  = /usr/bin/cvs
        env                     = HOME=/cvs
        server_args             = -f --allow-root=/cvs pserver
#       bind                    = 127.0.0.1
}



6,run cvs server
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart