Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19991122134712.20628.rocketmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 05:47:12 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: CVS server on WinNT. To: bsimon@ctam.com.au, CygWin32 , CVS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Brendan Simon wrote: > A few simple questions (I hope) on running CVS as a server on a WinNT > machine. I would prefer to run it on a Linux box but I might not have a > choice. > > Can a CVS server run on NT ? I assume so if using cygwin. > I haven't looked at the source to know; but, I would assume that you need the other services such as INETD or RPC. It should work fine on NT with cygwin. > Will it talk to clients on any platform (ie. checkin/checkout from > Win95/98/NT, Linux, Unix, etc) ? > If you have the INETD and RPC it shouldn't be a problem. > Is running CVS server on NT as secure as a CVS server on Linux ? > I don't know, the only thing I've seen in print is from the article that Chris gave the address to last week. It stated something about the shared memory may be a security risk. > What about the reliability of cygwin on NT ? I THINK (not 100% sure) The only problem I've had at all on NT is with broken snapshots. BTW, the current version of CVS builds OOB with Cygwin. ===== Earnie Boyd Cygwin Newbies, please visit __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com