Re: [SLUG] Looking for an answer to RCS

From: Mike Manchester (mchester@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 10:12:25 EDT


Ronan;
Yes I would very much like some help setting up CVS with ssh.
mchester at pobox.com
Mike M.

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:46, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> Mike Manchester wrote:
> > I would like to store all my documents under RCS. That part is easy. But
> > what I really would like is to have the documents stored on a central
> > server, so that I can get, update and save them from anyone of my
> > computers. I have found information on how to run CVS to do this. But
> > that's over kill for me. I just document revisions and that's all no
> > project control etc. Everything I can find on CVS/RCS doesn't say
> > anything about running or storing revisions on a central server unless
> > you us CVS and I've heard there are security concerns with running CVS.
> > In all my searching of the Internet I was unable to find any good
> > information on setting something like this up. Can something like this
> > be done? If so how do I go about doing it?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike M.
> >
> >
>
>
> As for security concerns, you can run CVS via SSH. This should make CVS
> safe. I dislike hearing the overkill argument when talking about
> OpenSource products. Why is CVS overkill, does it cost more? Does it
> require lots of administration? Is it hard to set-up? None of these
> things are true. You can even use CVS without setting-up the TCP/IP
> daemon, either on one machine or on multiple machines with shared
> filesystems (I don't advocate the latter except within secured LANs).
>
> If you want help installing or using CVS, let me know. I have used CVS
> for quite a few software projects, and the documentation (text and
> binary WP formats) over the last four years. I am a big fan of CVS!
>
> --ronan
>
> PS: For these same reasons, PostgreSQL is not overkill compared to the
> vastly inferior MySQL. IMNSHO.
>
>
>



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