1. Should it be run as root? No. Run as a non-privileged user. 2. How do we get client keys? crontab updated -- D1. How do I update my darcs repo to pull in these changes? darcs pull This will pull in these changes from the repository you last did a get or pull from. Chances are this is the repository you want. Remember there are multiple repositories, and they may not have the same changes. That's the whole idea of decentralised development. The netrek.org repository tracks CVS on SourceForge until 1st June 2006. My public repository has some changes that are not and never will be in CVS. The changes you saw on the Netrek CVS mailing list are the changes made to CVS on SourceForge. If these are the only changes you want in your darcs repository, then you should pull from only the netrek.org repository. To make that explicit rather than having darcs default to the last used repository, add the URL of the repository to the end of the pull command, like so: darcs pull http://www.netrek.org/repos/netrek-server/ Please read this section of the manual: Switching from CVS Darcs commands for CVS users http://www.darcs.net/manual/node2.html#SECTION00220000000000000000