Setting up the environment

• Set your CVSROOT environment variable to whatever is appropriate, e.g. to the GSyC Master repository which is in nautilus.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es:/usr/local/share/GSyC-SRC-Master:

          nautilus$  export CVSROOT=nautilus:/usr/local/share/GSyC-SRC-Master

• set your umask so write permission is granted to the group. The whole repository belongs to the group profes.

          nautilus$  umask 002

• set up your path so you could use CVS (this step is not needed for Linux). It's usually installed in /usr/local/install/cvs/

    nautilus$ export PATH=/usr/local/install/cvs/bin:$PATH
    nautilus$ export MANPATH=/usr/local/install/cvs/man:$MANPATH

• Set up your CVSEDITOR variable. CVS will use it to help you editing the logs. If you use emacs you can take advantage of the emacsclient program which makes your emacs edit whatever is given to it. Try this:

    nautilus$ export CVSEDITOR=emacsclient

  and in the emacs editor...

    M-x server-start

At this point you're ready to run CVS!