RE: xinetd and CVS?

[Thorsten Heit]

> > I explicitly added "-f" to the list of server args as you can
> > see in the xinetd entry below, but no way...

*snip*

> This is no problem of (x)inetd, but of the configuration.
> Probably you are using
> Red Hat, which sets a HOME-Environment variable for
> applications started from
> inetd.

After fiddling a lot with the configuration it was indeed the
fact that $HOME is set to /root when xinetd was (re-)started.

Solution:
Insert a simple "export HOME=/" into /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd and
then restart the daemon..... *grm*

> >     server_args     = -f --allow-root=/cvs/golk pserver

It was confusing me almost two days because I thought the flag "-f"
tells cvs _not_ to read any configuration info...?

Cheers

Thorsten