[geeks] interesting cvs/shell problem

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> I use CVS over ssh to store sources on my NetBSD server.
> 
> My shell startup files have these lines in them:
> 
> CVS_RSH=ssh
> CVSROOT=<path to remote CVS>
> 
> This is for bash version 3.x on a Linux box where I do most of my
> editing.
> 
> cvs can see the CVSROOT variable when it runs, but not CVS_RSH.
> 
> Both work fine if my startup script explicitely exports those variables.
> 
> That leads to an obvious question though: why would export be needed for
> one environment variable and not the other?
> 
> Am I missing something really obvious, or is there something funky going
> on here?

I would assume that somewhere, something else is also exporting CVSROOT.
 To test this, comment out both lines and see if CVSROOT is still defined.



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