Problems with cygwin cvs over ssh.

[René Berber]

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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