Re: How do I know pserver is running?!

[sean dreilinger]

hi James:

James Depaul wrote:
> It's puzzling that when I log into the current machine (that allows
> pserver connnections just fine) and I grep for cvspserver or pserver
> process on that box - I see nothing to that affect... soooo: how can you
> tell that the pserver is running on a particular machine?!

many cvs pserver implementations start cvs via inetd or xinetd (by adding a line
in /etc/inetd.conf on the server). in this arrangement cvs pserver is not
running continuously as a daemon, it only exists when a connection is initiated
on port 2401.

if this is the case with your setup, you can verify the pserver operation by
running something like:

        telnet myserver 2401
or
        cvs -t myserver login

where the -t gives you some extra trace/debug output.

hth
--sean

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