[rancid] no CVS directory created for new groups

[Charles T. Brooks]

If you haven't defined CVSROOT then CVS won't know where to create CVS objects, n'est-ce pas?

Until you define it, CVS can't work.  Google your error message.

CVSROOT is usually set in a bash profile (or whatever login initialization script is used by your chosen OS.)

Remember, the environment variable has to be set for the process actually running CVS.  If you are running CVS from a user login, that's quite likely got different environment configuration than when you're running it out of cron or some other job scheduler.

 --Charlie
 
 From: Rancid-discuss <rancid-discuss-bounces at www.shrubbery.net> on behalf of Tim McIntire <Tim.McIntire at infinite.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 9:45 AM
To: Rancid-discuss at www.shrubbery.net
Subject: [rancid] no CVS directory created for new groups
  

Hi,
 
I recently migrated to rancid 3.9.  I created 3 groups initially and it is all working fine, but when I added two more, I was not getting any emails for the changes.  I tested email to the alias, that is working.  Looked through the archives  and it  appears to be related to not running rancid-cvs after adding the group to rancid.conf.    I can run rancid-run and it created the var/GROUP/configs dir and saves the config, but it is not keeping track of differences.  When I run 
 
cvs  log -bSh router.db 
 
I get
 
cvs log: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
cvs [log aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
 
I ran 
 
rancid-cvs -V -f /opt/rancid/etc/rancid.conf
 
but it is still not creating the GROUP in /opt/rancid/var/CVS.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks..
 
Tim
 
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