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