From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 23:29:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0DB14EF6 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 23:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990308072940.ZTCV682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:29:40 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Roelof Osinga Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:29:00 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: CVSup: a newbie's tale. Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <36E36EF5.ABB67988@eboa.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990308072940.ZTCV682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG reply has been CC'd to questions-mailing list On 8 Mar 99, at 7:32, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > > > Please have a read of http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/current.htm and > > give me your feedback. Tell us if you think that's enough for a newbie to > > get cvsup running. > > "I changed the base directory where the status files will be maintained. > Don't forget to create this directory. > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup" > > Q. Why would one want to change the base directory? So you can decide where you put the files and directories. Here's that directory on my machine: [dan@ns:/usr/local/etc/cvsup] $ ls -lt total 10 -r--r--r-- 1 root 1004 373 Feb 24 23:01 config.sh drwxrwxr-x 8 root 1004 512 Feb 24 22:06 sup.client drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1004 512 Feb 12 18:53 prefixes -r-xr-xr-x 1 root 1004 1672 Feb 12 12:02 update.sh -r--r--r-- 1 root 1004 523 Feb 7 19:59 supfile drwxrwxr-x 73 root 1004 2048 Feb 4 15:06 sup -r--r--r-- 1 root 1004 416 Feb 3 02:06 supfile.non-crypto -r--r--r-- 1 root 1004 161 Feb 3 02:06 supfile.crypto and under prefixes: [dan@ns:/usr/local/etc/cvsup] $ ls -l prefixes/ total 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 1004 10 Feb 3 04:28 FreeBSD-crypto.cvs -> /home/ncvs lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 1004 5 Feb 3 04:28 FreeBSD-gnats.current -> /home lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 1004 10 Feb 3 04:28 FreeBSD-mail.current -> /home/mail lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 1004 27 Feb 4 14:35 FreeBSD-www.current -> /usr/local/www/data/freebsd lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 1004 10 Feb 3 04:28 FreeBSD.cvs -> /home/ncvs lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 1004 2 Feb 3 04:28 distrib.self -> .. These are the symbolic links to where the data is actually stored. Hope that helps. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message