Re: Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem

[Larry Jones]

Hill, Benjamin W writes:
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> cvs login [USERNAME]

login does not take any parameters (it gets everything from CVSROOT).

> "cvs [login aborted]: connect to [SERVERNAME]([SERVERNAME]):2401 failed: =
> No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused =
> it."

This implies that nothing is listening at port 2401 on the server. 
Since you say it works on the server itself, I can only conclude that
you're not connecting to the machine you think you are.  Or you have an
unusual firewall of some sort that is preventing the connection (normal
firewalls either result in a timeout or a successful connection that is
immediately closed).

-Larry Jones

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