cvs on a cpanel vps

[Hostultrix]

hi,

I've been searching around, and thought I'd try asking here.

Has anyone here tried installing a cvs server on their VPS? I'm interested in doing this. The reason I posted it in this board is I think you have to add new services to chkservd for monitoring, don't you?

Anyway I have no idea where to start, I've been searching around Google for two days now with no success. I have it on my soon to be old vps, but someone installed it for me there.

Anyway, any help or suggestions appreciated!

[Hostultrix]

Oh, nevermind, that was pretty simple! :D

[mpattman]

Hi, please do share your findings, I am interested in doing this also.

[Hostultrix]

hi,

If you look up "cvs install xinetd" on Google, you will find some great articles. You do not need to do the compilation of cvs, as it seems our vps's already have cvs.

If you have apf, you will need to enable port 2401 in the IG_TCP_CPORTS

Brandon

[Robert]

I have not personally played around with CVS before. But something I'll have to give a try just to try to expand the horizons. :D

Thanks for sharing.

[charles]

If this is for personal use, may I suggest not using pserver but use cvs over ssh. It's more secure that way.

charles

[mpattman]

Sorry to drag up an old thread, I have CVS running using pserver what steps do I need to do to tunnel that over SSH and can the port number stay the same (2401) ? And does this then mean that there will be 2 ports that SSH is listening to on the server?

Many thanks for any help.

Matthew.

[charles]

Hi Matthew

First, I am not sure if you know this, but you can just use cvs over ssh and not run pserver. Just configure your cvs client to do this over ssh (search google for "cvs over ssh").

But if you were to do this, you could use stunnel, and no it would need to be a different port.

hth
charles

[mpattman]

Hi,

So if I ignore pserver as a protocol, I can login over SSH as long as my client (TortoiseCVS) supports the :ssl: or :ext: protocol, is that right ? If this is the case can I remove my "cvspserver" file from the /etc/xinetd.d directory?

I sometimes work behind a strict firewall that happens to have port xxxx open on it for access to pserver public CVS servers, is it possible to get SSHd to listen to my regular SSH port XX as well as the one that would normally be used for pserver?

[charles]

Hi,

So if I ignore pserver as a protocol, I can login over SSH as long as my client (TortoiseCVS) supports the :ssl: or :ext: protocol, is that right ? If this is the case can I remove my "cvspserver" file from the /etc/xinetd.d directory?

Yes if you want to disable it. It is not needed if you use cvs over ssh


I sometimes work behind a strict firewall that happens to have port 24xx open on it for access to pserver public CVS servers, is it possible to get SSHd to listen to my regular SSH port XX as well as the one that would normally be used for pserver?

Yes if you dont have pserver listening on it :) Just add the other port to your sshd_config and restart sshd.

hth
charles

[mpattman]

Fantastic, I will try this later.

Thank you.