[rancid] Re: CVS Command Not Found When Using SVN

[john heasley]

Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:49:53AM -0000, Mick Burke:
> Hi all,
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> I am trying to configure RANCID to work properly. My company uses an SVN server, and I found a patch that is supposed to get RANCID to work with an SVN server. The patch was made by Karsten Heymann, and I found it here: http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2008-December/003489.html
>  
> I?ve installed this patch, and RANCID does work to a point. When I run the bin/rancid-cvs command, it creates a log file in var/logs, and this is the contents of all the log files it has created:
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> starting: Mon Feb 9 07:01:01 GMT 2009
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> /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 353: cvs: command not found
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> ending: Mon Feb 9 07:01:02 GMT 2009
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> I have also declared RCSSYS environment variable as SVN, and SVN is working on the server RANCID is installed on. I have looked all over Google and I haven?t managed to find an answer to this question. Could someone please help me out?

and what version of rancid are you using?