[lug] mixing linux/win cvs/ssh

[Glenn Murray]

I wrote a more general how-to at
http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray/public_html/HowTo/minesCVS_SSH.html
which covers the Win2K client to Linux CVS server angle.  In there I
discuss the gui clients tkCVS and WinCVS.  WinCVS is preferred by
Windoze users, but I haven't always been able to make it work with the
ssh.exe linked from the same page.  TkCVS always works, but is
clunkier under Windoze.

By the way, tkCVS works well under Linux.  There is a WinCVS for
linux, possibly beta, which I haven't tried.

Then again, there is the trust ol' command line.

In the user's .bashrc on the server I put

case $- in
    *i*);;
    *) return 0;;
esac

after the paths are set.  This is supposed to stop the reading of the
file if it's a non-interactive shell.  It would be nice if would
someone would explain what a "non-interactive shell" is, or give a
reference, and why this code is a Good Thing.

Cheers,
Glenn Murray
www.mines.edu/~gmurray/public_html/Welcome.html

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, D. Stimits wrote:

> I might be installing an ssh client and cvs client on a win 2k machine
> for ssh wrapped cvs sessions that go to a RH 7.1 box (method :ext: with
> CVS_RSH set to ssh). Before I go down the long road of despair, can
> anyone recommend less headache-prone versions of clients for this, which
> work well with RH 7.1 (OpenSSH daemon)?
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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