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Re: Problems with cygwin cvs over ssh.
- From: René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:23:47 -0600
- Subject: Re: Problems with cygwin cvs over ssh.
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James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> CVS_RSH=/bin/ssh
> CVS -d fred@x.x.x.x:/test-repository co test1
--^^^
Is this correct? or it was really _cvs_.
> ...password....
> cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-server1396/.
> No such file or directory.
>
> I am running OpenSSH on a cygwin windows server.
> The CVS repository is on the windows server.
[snip]
From the manual:
"If the access method is omitted, then if the repository starts with ‘/’, then
:local: is assumed."
Try: cvs -d :ext:fred@...:/test-repository co test1
--
René Berber
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