(Summary and references below)

I do  not think  it's so important  because adding  a line in  my .emacs
solves the problem, so I will not  fill a bug against emacs nor jde, but
FYI:

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From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: commit problem with cvs mode
Date: 17 Jun 2003 14:16:01 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

> in conjunction with setting it in ~/.emacs of course. my emacs is
> spawned from within a blackbox menu, and it doesnt pick up shell
> variables. thats  probably what happened with Arnaud  as well, because
> cvs
> commits seemed to work from the command line. 

Please report such brain dead setups to whoever is responsible (probably
something like RedHat, Debian, ...).  There should be one place where
you can set all your envvars and have them inherited everywhere. 
This place is typically ~/.bash_login or ~/.login but could be something
else.  ~/.bashrc is obviously wrong, although it might work. 


        Stefan

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The begining of the thread was here:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2003-06/msg00532.html

Summary:

I'd some  problems with cvs to  sourceforge (ssh). I  set my environment
variables in ~/.bashrc  and in ~/.xinitrc but it  was not suffisiant, so
Sam Halliday told me to add
 
                        (setenv "CVS_RSH" "ssh")

in ~/.emacs and it works fine.

-- Arnaud Vandyck, STE fi, ULg
   Formateur Cellule Programmation.