Re: [jcvs] CVS Command line option - "--allow-root"

[Tim Endres <time@ice.com>]

> I tried to configure my inetd.conf as the following:
> 
> cvs     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/cvs      cvs pserver
> 
> but jCVS connection test failed and complaint that --allow-root is missing
> from inetd.conf!
> 
> So I changed it back to
> 
> cvs     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/cvs
>     cvs  --allow-root=/pub/cvsroot pserver
> 
> and it worked. I remember I have done the first apporach before and it had
> worked.
> 
> Any suggestion on why it failed this time?

The '--allow-root' option was new to 1.10, so if you used 1.9
it would have worked without the option.

tim.
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