[rancid] Re: RANCID and CVSWEB

[Todd Heide]

I have run into this same problem with Fedora Core. It turned out to be
the permissions in the directories where the CVS files are stored. They
need to be readable by Apache. 

drwxrwxr-x 3 Rancid Rancid 4096 Sep 10 08:04 configs
drwxrwxr-x 10 Rancid netadm   4096 Jul 16 15:43 rancid

This was the only way I was able to get CVSweb to work with Rancid. I
think the default setting was

drwxrwx--- 10 Rancid netadm   4096 Jul 16 15:43 rancid


Thanks
Todd 
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-----Original Message-----
From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
[mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Chris Bell
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:17 AM
To: 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net'
Subject: [rancid] RANCID and CVSWEB

I spent the better part of yesterday, last night, and this morning
trying to figure out how to get cvsweb to work with RANCID.  I'm running
Redhat 5.x and have Rancid installed to the default directory path
/usr/local/rancid.  For cvsweb, I am using 3.0.6-4.  In my cvsweb.conf
(/etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf) I have this config:

@CVSrepositories = (
       'local'   => ['Local Repository', '/var/cvs'],
        'rancid'  => ['rancid', '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/']
#       'freebsd' => ['FreeBSD',          '/var/ncvs'],
#       'openbsd' => ['OpenBSD',          '/var/ncvs'],
#       'netbsd'  => ['NetBSD',           '/var/ncvs'],
#       'ruby'    => ['Ruby',             '/var/anoncvs/ruby'],

That path, points to the CVSROOT for Rancid.  When I browse to
...http://server/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/, the local repo is available, but
there is no drop down box to go to the 'rancid' repo.  If I comment out
the local repo in the cvsweb.conf, I get this error when trying to
browse to the same url:

Error: No valid CVS roots found! See @CVSrepositories in the
configuration file (/etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf)

This leads me to believe that there is not a permission issue on the
.conf file, because if there was - changing by commenting out a repo
would not make a difference.

Any idea on what I'm doing wrong?  Sorry if this has been covered, but I
honestly couldn't find it anyplace that offered a solution.  Several
discussions about it on the cvsweb list, but nothing that offered a
solution.  This worked like a charm and out of the box with Ubuntu when
I did it a couple of years ago -- but unfortunately I'm not able to
build this box on Ubuntu, has to be Redhat.


Christopher Bell, CCNA
Network Operations Manager
Tower Hill Insurance Group, Inc.
352-332-8800, ext 1734


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