[SPARCbook] CVS Help

[Meer Ahmed]

I am planning to install CVS  a Version control software on SUN Sparc
running Solaris 8. Would anyone mind helping me out and giving out info
about the latest version of CVS available and it's compatibility and most
importanatly guide me through the installation procedure.

Thanks in Advance

A Newbie :>)



----- Original Message -----
From: "sunder" <sunder at sunder.net>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Help - THANKS


> Oscar.G.Farah at census.gov wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to sunder at sunder.net, I have "bash" installed and working and
> > Netscape working properly as well; and thanks to Russell, I have
> > downloaded a lot of interesting information from http://www.kempston.net
which I
> > will use to try to get the modem working; in addition I found out
> > in these downloaded files that the PATH variable is defined at boot by
the
> > file ".dtprofile" located in the home directory.
> >
> >  As I do not have my laptop here; it is at home; I hope that this is
> > correct because I would like to modify the default path.
> >
> > Does ".dtprofile" also contain the selection of which shell to use at
> > boot?  I would like to use the bash shell exclusively.  Thanks
>
> Sadly, no.  At least not with my experimentation.  If you use CDE (the
Common Desktop Environment which uses .dtprofile) all sorts
> of weird things happen to CDE if you exec or just call bash from
.dtprofile.
>
> Rather, you should just set the shell field in the passwd file.  Use the
vipw command to do this. Change /bin/csh or /bin/sh to
> /usr/local/bin/bash for the account you want, then exit.
>
> If you don't know how to use vi, do a search on google.  Basically, the
cursor keys will work fine.  Use i to enter insert mode
> (there are all sort of other keys.) Press ESC to get out.  If you're not
in insert mode, you can use x to delete.  When you're done
> editing the file, press ESC, type in :x! and hit enter.  If you made an
error and don't want to mess up the file, use ESC :q! will
> exit and quit.
>
> I don't think Solaris 2.6 has a chsh command sadly.
>
> But, there is another trick you can do.  If your account is using csh, you
can change the .login and .cshrc files on the last line
> to say "exec bash" - it might work.  It's worth trying.
>
> If you know shell programming you can add something like this to .profile.
(This is off the top of my head, so it's likely buggy.)
>
> First, go into bash. Then type in echo $0. This should print either bash
or /usr/local/bin/bash.  The only box I have available now
> as I type this (OpenBSD says "-bash")  Replace the bash in the if
statement to this.
>
> Put this line as the last line of your .profile
>
> if [ "$0" != "-bash" ]; then exec /usr/local/bin/bash; fi
>
> You might need to remove the exec in some cases.  CDE is a bit funny about
changing the shell.  So again, don't do this to the root
> account.  That way, if you get hosed, you can at least login as root and
fix it. :)
>
>
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