[Dcmlib] Re: CVS difficulties

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hello David,

	You can CC the list, it is always nice to share problems/solutions 
among users.

	Anyway for you problem, I believe this is simply a warning from cvs. 
The first time you ever use cvs it needs to create a .cvspass file where 
it can save a pseudo-encripted password for a particular cvs repository.

	Check that the read/write permission are ok for this file. You should 
be able to do:

cat ~/.cvspass
and
touch ~/.cvspass

Mathieu
Ps: login as root is definitely the best way to shoot yourself in the 
foot (with a `rm -rf`). It could also be that due to the total 
insecurity of cvs your system refuse to let you use cvs under root 
account (complete guess).

David Witten wrote:
> I apologize for bothering you, but I am having a rather embarrassing 
> problem attempting to retrieve the GDCM via CVS.  I have only used CVS 
> directly on a few occasions, though I am fairly certain that  it worked 
> successfully with this site in the past.  I have been unable to make it 
> work this time, however.  I really want the 1.1 branch or later.
> 
> I have been attempting to use either WinCVS (the current stable version) 
>  or alternatively the command line utility under Cygwin (I follow the 
> instructions for Linux in this case).  I follow the instructions as they 
> are presented on the gdcm Website at:
> 
>    http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Public/Gdcm/Cvs.html
> 
> as follows:
> 
> $ cvs login
> Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at cvs.creatis.insa-lyon.fr:2402/cvs/public
> CVS password:
> cvs login: warning: failed to open /home/Administrator/.cvspass for 
> reading: No
> such file or directory
> 
> I have also tried the following from my FreeBSD system (using BASH):
> 
> silver2# bash
> root at silver2# export 
> CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at cvs.creatis.insa-lyon.fr:2402/cvs/public
> root at silver2# cvs login
> Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at cvs.creatis.insa-lyon.fr:2402/cvs/public
> CVS password:  (I enter 'anonymous')
> cvs login: warning: failed to open /root/.cvspass for reading: No such 
> file or directory
> 
> Can you point out what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Dave Witten
> (list lurker and DICOM experimenter)
> 
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