OSX and CVSROOT

221 Views Asked by Michel Lecomte At 15 October 2013 at 07:39

I am using on a computer OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 server. I want to configure CVS on it so that other computers can use that repository later.

Can someone explain me ho to configure and start xinetd (preferably) or inetd. The directory /etc/xinetd.d is empty (means no services use it). When I type "/System/Library/StartupItems/IPServices/IPServices start" I get "command not found".
How to configure Internet Services to make sure that they know where is my CVS repository and on what port to listen => need to configure port 2401.
I dont find any inetd.conf file in /etc - why ? Thk.

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Lucas Holt

Lucas Holt On 26 November 2013 at 00:37

Mac OS X uses launchd to start services. Here's a link with an example of creating a launchd job.

However, it might make more sense to use cvs over ssh rather than running pserver. It provides encryption for the usernames & passwords.