[COLUG] June Meeting Recap

[Josh Glover]

Quoth Scott Merrill (Mon 2004-06-21 05:21:35PM -0400):

> MEETING NOTICE
> ==============
> Central Ohio Linux Users Group
> 
> Date: Saturday, 26 June, 1:00 to 3:00 PM local
> 
> Meeting Presentation
> ====================
> 1. Introduction to CVS (Josh Glover)
> 2. Using CVS to Manage a Software Project (Josh Glover)
> 3. Using CVS to Manage Config Files (Josh Glover and Jim Wildman)

As those of you who made it to the meeting know, I was dreadfully long-
winded and we thus only made it through (1) and (2). Jim, I hope you
will forgive me, and also hope that you can present (3) at the next
meeting. I think config file management is a great application for
CVS!

The OOo presentation that I put together on (1) is available here:

http://www.jmglov.net/unix/presentations/

It is called "Introduction to CVS", and is available in HTML, OOo
Impress format, and PDF. All three files are provided under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

I will go ahead and complete the presentation for (2) and publish it
in the same location under the same licence. I will try to get this
done this week, but no promises. :)

My CVS scripts are here:

http://www.jmglov.net/unix/scripts/

cvs-add schedules a directory for addition recursively (i.e. the dir
and all of its files and subdirs are added).

cvs-lock locks any directory tree in the CVS repository, so you can
rename files, run backups, enforce a commit freeze, etc.

cvs-status simply pipes the output of 'cvs status' to
"grep 'Status: [^U]'", which has the effect of only showing the files
that are not up-to-date.

cvs-unlock unlocks any directory tree in the CVS repository that has
been locked with cvs-lock.

All of these scripts are provided under the BSD licence.

I mentioned two dead-tree references. For users, the _CVS Pocket
Reference_ is just the thing:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cvspr2/

Micro Center often has loads of these in the bargain books section,
though they are First Edition. Frankly, I find my First Edition very
useful, and you cannot beat $1.99! :)

For CVS administrators (or advanced CVS users), you must buy
_Essential CVS_:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cvs/

WRT Phil Hunter's security concerns, here is an announcement of the
CVS pserver vuln:

http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0405-exploits/cvs_linux_freebsd_HEAP.c

And here is the CAN statement:

http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0396

Phil is right in advising that no-one run remote pserver, even
anonymous. Consider cvsweb[1] or some other tool for anonymous CVS
access.

I made mention of the overlap between Unix and Zen/Daoist philosophy.
Here is Eric S. Raymond's collection of Unix koans:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/

Also check out his latest book, _The Art of Unix Programming_:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/

Not only is it tasty, it features a scene straight out of Chinese
history on the cover and makes much of the Zen/Unix connexion.

And don't miss The Jargon File, which should be *the* reference
for acronyms and hacker-speak:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/

-Josh

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html

-- 
Josh Glover

Gentoo Developer (http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmglov/)
Tokyo Linux Users Group Listmaster (http://www.tlug.jp/)

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