Re: Problems running cvs pserver

[dreade]

hi,
after some configuration changes here is the output from the jCVS client
connection test

CVSClient.SENDLine: 'BEGIN AUTH REQUEST'
CVSClient.SENDLine: '/imiwebdb/dynamodata/cvsroot'
CVSClient.SENDLine: 'dynamo'
CVSClient.SENDLine: 'Aea=ed<1"o'
CVSClient.SENDLine: 'END AUTH REQUEST'
CVSClient.READLine: 'cvs pserver: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the
`-d' option'
AUTHENTICATE: REPLY: 'cvs pserver: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the
`-d' option'

I get the same response if I telnet to the port i.e.  The connection
terminates immediately with the

Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
cvs pserver: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
cvs [pserver aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
Connection closed by foreign host.

My question is: Why does the cvs pserver command require a CVSROOT variable
to be set if it gets this from the client connection?

TIA
Duncan



                                                                                
      
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                    (Larry Jones)        cc:     address@hidden                 
    
                                         Subject:     Re: Problems running cvs  
      
                    05/03/01             pserver                                
      
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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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demonstrate a math problem at the chalkboard? -- Calvin






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