Re: CVS, Connection refused

[William Daffer]

"Lamar Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am running RH 7.1 and CVS 1.11-3 using the bash shell.  When I try and
> connect to cvs I get the following error:  "Connection refused".  Anyone
> have any ideas?  Thanks for any help.
> 
> Lamar

  I take it you're connecting to a remote server?


  Are you using RSH as the transport? What is the value of CVS_RSH?

  Assuming you are: is rshd installed? (or is it rexecd, it's been so
  long since I installed those Sun RPC facilities) <rpm -q rsh>

  If installed, does the server have `rsh' chkconfig'd on? This is
  part of the xinetd configuration. <man chkconfig> <man xinetd>

  If installed and chkconfig'd on, does the server's
  /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} allow such a connection? <man hosts_access> 

  You can use SSH by setting CVS_RSH to 'ssh'. That's a safer way to
  do it anyway.

whd
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