On Friday 13 June 2003 04:42, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:46:49PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Mike M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030612 21:48]: > > > On the Debian system, when I query evironments vars, I do not set > > > CVS_RSH set. Why do the Debian systems allow the :ext: access > > > method to work without having the CVS_RSH var set? > > > > The default is to use rsh. If you've installed ssh, but not > > rsh-client, then /usr/bin/rsh is a symlink to ssh. (Well, indirectly, > > anyway, through the alternatives system). > > ... for now, anyway. There's a bug report asking for this to be removed > since ssh no longer implements the rsh fallback that it used to > implement; I'm inclined to agree, so it may disappear soon.
Where and how is the defaulting done? CVS compile option? Config file? Ask the package maintainer? I don't want to change CVS on Debian. I want to understand why I don't have to set CVS_RSH on Debian. Thanks, -- Mike Mueller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
