Re: Trying to locate an error

[Geoff Beier]

Tomas Sanchez Romani wrote:
> So far I got two suggestions:
>
> 1) CVSROOT=:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gforge
>
> trying this (credit to Tom Copeland) a cmd-window opens executing cvs.exe and 
> keeps me waiting, and waiting, and waiting... seems that nothing happens.
>
> 2) cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/webcvs co -d c:/apache/htdocs/cage-web/ cvs
>
> trying this (credit to Alex Pop) results in: 
>
> cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `Unable to open connection:
> ' from cvs server
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
>
> So, it seems that I'm stuck!
>
> If nothing gets working soon, I'm considering to uninstall the environment (cvs 
> and ssh) and restart, If I do that, what do you recommend (I'm on a W2K-box - 
> which will _not_ change!).

It sounds like you're failing to make an ssh connection... can you ssh 
to your account?

If you're new to cvs and plan to run Windows 2000, I always recommend 
TortoiseCVS (http://www.tortoisecvs.org/)... It's very easy to setup and 
use.

HTH

Geoff