Re: gzip question

[Tim Endres <time@ice.com>]

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From: Per Anders Waaler <per.anders.waaler@marlink.com>
To: Tim Endres <time@ice.com>
Date: Mon Sep 21 05:26:24 EDT 1998
Subject: Re: gzip question

Hi,

gzip is in the PATH of ROOT on the server side.
I changed default shell from bash to sh in /etc/passwd
and now it works,

thx
Per Anders

Tim Endres wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 21 1998, Per Anders Waaler wrote:
> > ERROR downloading 'Created' file 'test/hosts'
> >       into temporary file 'D:/temp/T7b31095.cvs'.
> > REASON CVSClient.retrieveFile: ERROR size line is invalid 'E cvs [server
> > aborted]: couldn't exec gzip: No such file or directory'
>
> This is due to the executable "gzip" not being in your PATH on the
> server machine. There are a number of ways to correct this, but fixing
> PATH is the best.
>
> If you can not fix the server, you can turn off the "allows compression"
> flag for the project to disable the compression feature. You can turn
> this flag off with the "Allow File Compression" menu item in the File
> menu in the Project window. You want to "uncheck" the menu item.
>
> You can also put the following line in your 'jcvsrc.txt' (or '.jcvsrc'
> for UNIX users) file in your home directory:
>
>    jCVS.global.allowGzipFileMode=false
>
> which will disable the feature for all projects.
>
> tim.
> Tim Endres, ICE Engineering, Inc.
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