Re: newbie question CVS on Solaris

[Larry Jones]

Jesse Driver writes:
> 
> The first surprising
> thing I noticed is the file has a .gz extension, but
> cannot be gunzipped or unzipped:

That frequently happens when you download with a browser -- the browser
automagically unzips the file but doesn't remove the .gz from the name.

> My assumption at this point is that CVS is actually
> just one executable that you put in the /usr/local/bin
> directory, so I installed it that way.

Correct.

> But now I am tryin gto get remote access to work. I've
> made the additions to the inetd.conf and /etc/services
> files, but I get a connection refused.

You need to tell inetd to reread its configuration file, usually by
sending it a SIGHUP.  See your inetd man page for details.

> My quesion is that over in the /etc/services file I
> have the following lines:
> cvspserver      2401/tcp
> cvspserver      2401/udp
> 
> Doesn;t there need to be an executable named
> cvspserver somewhere?

No, those are service names, not executable names.  You inetd config
file entry is what ties the cvspserver service to the /usr/local/bin/cvs
executable.  And note that CVS doesn't use UDP, so you should get rid of
the second line (although it doesn't hurt anything to have it, nothing
will ever use it).

-Larry Jones

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