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Re: Problem accessing the cvs server
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- To: Ranjith P Antony <ranjith at atinav dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:33:23 +0100
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: Problem accessing the cvs server
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <53C479585385D311944000508B10D701012DFF6A@mail.atinav.com>
> Ranjith P Antony wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried to log on to the ecos server using the command line utility of
> CVS
> as specified in the http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/anoncvs.html
> I entered the password correctly as "anoncvs"
>
> I am getting the following error. Is there any mistake I made
>
> C:\>cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/ecos login
> Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:2401/cvs/ecos
> CVS password:
> cvs login: failed to open I:\/.cvspass for reading: No such file or
> directory
> cvs [login aborted]: fatal error: exiting
This is some sort of CVS client issue. cvs is picking up your "HOME"
environment variable, which is set to I:\
I believe the proper cygwin CVS client should have fixed your HOME
variable, so perhaps this isn't happening. What happens when you type "echo
$HOME" at a cygwin bash prompt?
Jifl
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