Quoting Brian Lavender <brian@brie.com>:
> I installed cvs and I successfully executed the command
>
> $ cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init
>
> and it created the directory
> /usr/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT
>
> so I went to
> /home/brian/src/perl/usr
>
> and created a file
> helloworld.pl
>
> I tried to commit it to cvs with the command below, but you
> can see the error I got.
>
> brian@debian:~/src/perl/usr> cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot/ commit
> helloworld.pl
> cvs commit: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
> cvs commit: nothing known about `helloworld.pl'
> cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
>
> What corrections do I need to make?
>
> brian
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> Brian Lavender
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Couple of problems: one you did not create a cvs module to work from.
mkdir /usr/local/cvsroot/scripts
cd /home/brian/src/perl; cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot checkout script
copy your script to 'scripts' and execute 'cvs add yourscript.pl'
Mike Machado
mike@innercite.com
InnerCite
Network Specialist
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