Re: About cvs pserver setup

[Frank Derichsweiler]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:19:56AM -0700, gopinath balagopala wrote:
> 
> then restarted inetd.conf by restarting inetd.conf as
> /usr/sbin/inetd
> we noticed the entry for inetd by executing the
> command ps -el, but it was in sleep mode.

In order to reread the /etc/inetd.conf configuration file you have to
HUP the inetd process, i.e. kill -HUP <process ID>

> 
> then we started the server by executing the command
> 'cvs pserver'
> we noticed the entry for cvs pserver by executing the
> command ps -el, but it was in sleep mode(S).

Starting the "server process" is *not* necessary on the server
machine. A connection request via the 2401 port triggers the starting
and stopping of the appropritae process.

HTH
Frank

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