informatics.ed.ac.uk change
In preparation to replace the existing www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/ pages with new web pages hosted at (www.)informatics.ed.ac.uk, the DNS entries informatics.ed.ac.uk and www.informatics.ed.ac.uk have changed to point at the IS (Information Services) web hosting service, rather than our own server.
It was accepted that this may break any old existing www.informatics.ed.ac.uk URLs (which has been deprecated for years), but we didn’t consider the impact this would have on old CVS based web publishing.
Longer standing members of staff who still use CVS to publish web pages probably still have references to www.informatics.ed.ac.uk in their CVS/Root and ~/.cvspass files, and possibly even a $CVSROOT environment variable. These people will now find they get errors when trying to update web pages via CVS.
The fix is to replace any mentions of www.informatics.ed.ac.uk with the usual www.inf.ed.ac.uk in the files and variable mentioned above. This command can help with that for the various CVS/Root files you will have in your checked out copy of the web pages:
cd <root of your checked out copy>
find . -name Root -type f -path \*/CVS/\* -exec sed -ie s/@www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/@www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ {} \;
and remember to check your ~/.cvspass file.
Neil
