Re: Problems running cvs pserver

[Larry Jones]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> We can telnet to the port and we can see that the cvs process is spawed
> successfully
> 
> ps -ef | grep cvs
> root 21066  1022  0 16:07:10 ?        0:00 cvs -f
> --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
> 
> However when we send any characters they are read and then ignored. Using
> truss we can see that the process is just reading the input characters and
> then sleeping.

Does that include a newline?  If you telnet to the port and hit return,
you should get:

        cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start: 

If you don't, there's something wrong with your CVS executable.  I'd
suggest downloading the current version (1.11.1p1) from www.cvshome.org.

-Larry Jones

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