Re: CVS hangs on exit when using SSH

[Ken Williams]

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 05:34  PM, Larry Jones wrote:

> Ken Williams writes:
> > When I issue any CVS command (update, checkout, diff, etc.), the
> > connection hangs indefinitely when the command is [nearly?] completed.
> > It happens reliably on this client, but never happens on another client
> > with identical software versions.
>
> There is a known incompatibility between the 1.11.2 server and all
> previous clients when compression is enabled.  This is fixed in the
> current development version of CVS.

Aha!!  Thanks, the compression was the hidden difference between the two 
machines.  I removed "-z 3" from my .cvsrc, and it started working 
properly.

 -Ken