[rancid] Re: RANCID and CVSWEB

Thu Sep 10 13:57:12 UTC 2009

Hmmm ..

[root at blah ~]# ls /var/cvs/
[root at blah ~]#

Am I missing a symbolic link or something?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan West [mailto:rwest at zyedge.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:54 AM
To: Chris Bell
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: RE: RANCID and CVSWEB

Chris,

Can you show the contents of your CVS directory?

rancid at netman:~/var/CVS$ ls
CVSROOT  noc

-ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bell [mailto:CBell at thig.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:45 AM
To: Chris Bell; Ryan West
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: RE: RANCID and CVSWEB

Actually that happens either way .... with the local repo commented out or not.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bell
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:39 AM
To: 'Ryan West'
Subject: RE: RANCID and CVSWEB

Only when I remove the 'local' variable.

[Thu Sep 10 13:30:23 2009] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Root '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS' defined in @CVSrepositories is not a directory, entry ignored at /var/www/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 481.
[Thu Sep 10 13:30:24 2009] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Root '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS' defined in @CVSrepositories is not a directory, entry ignored at /var/www/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 481.
[Thu Sep 10 13:30:25 2009] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Root '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS' defined in @CVSrepositories is not a directory, entry ignored at /var/www/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 481.
[Thu Sep 10 13:30:25 2009] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Root '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS' defined in @CVSrepositories is not a directory, entry ignored at /var/www/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 481.
[Thu Sep 10 13:30:26 2009] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Root '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS' defined in @CVSrepositories is not a directory, entry ignored at /var/www/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 481.
[Thu Sep 10 13:30:28 2009] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Root '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS' defined in @CVSrepositories is not a directory, entry ignored at /var/www/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 481

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan West [mailto:rwest at zyedge.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:33 AM
To: Chris Bell
Subject: RE: RANCID and CVSWEB

I don't use either for anything but RANCID as well.  Do your apache logs have anything of value?

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bell [mailto:CBell at thig.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:30 AM
To: Ryan West; 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net'
Subject: RE: RANCID and CVSWEB

Hi.. thanks, I added the comma, but it made no difference.  I've actually tried it both ways.  I've also tried changing the cvstreedefault variable to 'rancid' from 'local' and it makes no difference.

To be honest, I know little to nothing about CVS other than how it works with Rancid - which is the only thing I use it for.  I've heard before that using SVN is better however.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan West [mailto:rwest at zyedge.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:25 AM
To: Chris Bell; 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net'
Subject: RE: RANCID and CVSWEB

Chris,

Looks like you're missing a trailing comma.

This is a working cvsweb install with RANCID:

@CVSrepositories = (
#        'local'   => ['Local Repository', '/var/lib/cvs'],
        'neteng'  => ['NetEng Devices',   '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS'],
);
$cvstreedefault = 'neteng';

Also, I'm sure you don't want to hear this right now, but I would recommend WebSVN whenever you're ready to make the change from CVS.  It's a little unnerving when you convert, but I'm quite happy with the WebSVN interface and the development team there is more active.

-ryan

-----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 9:17 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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