viewcvs rlog error

[Robin Becker]

In article <XwAkbgAhPUV7Ewd6 at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk>, Robin Becker
<robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>In article <RNr1kKAPDJV7EwP1 at jessikat.demon.co.uk>, Robin Becker
><robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>>In article <74f2f0e9.0107171115.25248606 at posting.google.com>, Jeanie M.
>>Schwenk <jschwenk at oregon.idt.com> writes
>>>I just installed viewcvs 0.7 and it gives python exceptions if the
>>>directory has any files in it.  Not terribly useful.   It appears to
>>>be some kind of rlog error but I can't duplicate it from the command
>>>line so I must assume it's something to do with the python scripts. 
>>>I'm new to python so any useful suggestions would be nice.
>>>
>>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "/opt/viewcvs0.7/lib/viewcvs.py", line 2514, in run_cgi
>>>    main()
>>>  File "/opt/viewcvs0.7/lib/viewcvs.py", line 2477, in main
>>>    view_directory(request)
>>>  File "/opt/viewcvs0.7/lib/viewcvs.py", line 1091, in view_directory
>>>    fileinfo, alltags = get_logs(full_name, rcs_files, view_tag)
>>>  File "/opt/viewcvs0.7/lib/viewcvs.py", line 1035, in get_logs
>>>    raise 'error during rlog: '+hex(status)
>>>error during rlog: 0x7f00
>>I'm getting the identical error after struggling a bit with my freeBSD
>>system. I'll have to go back to 0.5.
>OK it seems we need to install rlog, to get this to work.
alternatively as in my case I needed to set up the right path for
rcs_path in the viewcvs.conf
-- 
Robin Becker