>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner
<aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com> writes:
>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>>> "jsja" == John S J Anderson <jacobs(a)genehack.org> writes:
jsja> Greetings --
jsja> Is it possible to use PCL-CVS mode to access remote CVS repositories
jsja> via SSH? (Such as, for example, one at
sourceforge.net.)
Michael> Absolutely.
APA> Hmmh. Does it prompt you for your RSA passphrase?
APA> In my case cvs-update hange indefinitely, with SSH waiting for the
APA> passphrase without the user knowing.
This *is* a terrible user interface problem.
I don't use pcl-cvs, but the problem of ssh hanging waiting for a
password might be fixed by running ssh-agent + ssh-add before running
XEmacs (typically at system initialization time).
jsja> Everything appears to be set up correctly; I've got command-line
jsja> access to the Sourceforge repository, and I can access local
jsja> repositories via PCL-CVS, but when I try to use PCL-CVS to access the
jsja> Sourceforge repository, I get this message:
jsja> Message: cvs [status aborted]: cannot exec rsh: No such file or directory
Michael> Have you set the CVS_RSH environment variable?
APA> I do have it set.
Set before running XEmacs, of course...