How to set up a CVS server using SSH :

Step 1 : Install CVS to Fedora. My Fedora distro came with CVS since I chose developer properties during installation. However you may not have it to install simply say;

sudo yum install cvs

Step 2 : Create a cvs user and group! Just follow the code below;

mkdir /home/cvs

Step 3 : Set permissions and add /home/cvs directory to cvs by using the following;

cvs -d /home/cvs init

chmod 700   /home/cvs/CVSROOT

Step 4 : Now you have to add your project to the CVS server. I assume you have a ~/project directory on the server. Just follow the following commands;

cd ~/project

cvs -d /home/cvs checkout project

Step 5 : Add an account to the CVS server (preferably with the same username and password of the user acount you have created for the CVS server that will connect through SSH.) Use the following by replacing <username> and <password>

echo "<username>:<password>" >> /home/cvs/CVSROOT/passwd

Step 6 : Make sure you have created a user to connect through SSH give him CVS group permission.

And that is that. It should work. Though you may need to do some changes in Step 3. To connect you can simply use the following code or just use Eclipse’s IDE ( that is what we are using. )

export CVS_RSH=ssh

cvs -d :ext:username@repository.host.name:/home/cvs co moduleName

I hope it will be helpful. Peace!

The CVS code is as follows

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@theblackbox.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/theblackbox login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@theblackbox.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/theblackbox co -P modulename

I am sorry to say due to some weird problem you can not view the CVS modules from Sourceforge. You will need to use some kind of client. I am currently using Eclipse as my development IDE hence all my CVS materials comes from that. I have heard that TortoiseCVS is quite neat in its own way (for Windows) but I’d rather use Eclipse your choice.

Please feel free to be a part of the project. Warning us of any bugs will be rewarded with a Cookie.

Now back to the BeagleBoard was indeed a great buy. Small and fast. Though the peripherals cost us quite much. We installed Angstrom Linux  distribution. Which could be found at http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ . Being new in using the BeagleBoard we decided to use some of the sources at hand. We started with the site http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardBeginners . We ran into some problems.

Our first problem was that we did not have a AT-Everex cable to connect to the board. So we had to jump to Step 5 of the steps presented in the web-site.  Which is basicly Linux Boot Formatting the SDHC disc we bought for the board. I beg you please not to follow the steps at elinux.org instead follow http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/LinuxBootDiskFormat . It is much more clear and you don’t get side stepped. Once we used the steps in formatting the SD disk in code.google.com we noticed we needed cable so we can tell the board where to boot from. So until we get that cable (or make one for our selves?) the project is at a halt. Just follow this blog for any more updates on the board and follow the Sourceforge.net ‘s for the changes on our code.

Peace!