Setting up CVS Server in Ubuntu

Step 1: Install
     sudo apt-get install cvs cvsd

Step 2: Configuring repositories to CVS-Server

     typing "/cvsrepos"

Step 3: Option
     of default, the server's root path is "/var/lib/cvsd", and the repositoy with "/var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepos"
     for a change:
           sudo cvsd-buildroot /cvsd

Step 4: Initilize the repository
     sudo cvs -d /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepos init
     sudo chown -R cvsd:cvsd /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepos

Step 5: create a cvs-account
     sudo cvsd-passwd /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepos username   
     sudo vi /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepos/CVSROOT/config
      remove the annotation   of "SystemAuto=no"

Step 6: End
     sudo /etc/init.d/cvsd restart
     for a login testing
           cvs -d :pserver:username@localhost:/cvsrepos login
     create a module?
         mkdir /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepos/myproject
         chown cvsd:cvsd /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepos/myproject

CVS Client - GUI
for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows:
     SmartCVS (requires JRE 1.4.1 or higher):   
     http://www.syntevo.com/smartcvs/index.html
for Windows:
     TortoiseCVS:
     http://www.tortoisecvs.org

Learn:
i. Ripple’s Blog: CVS server on Ubuntu
     http://sanatio.blogspot.com/2005/12/cvs-server-on-ubuntu.html
ii. https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/server/C/cvs-server.html