Subject: Re: CVS still broken
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun May 13 2001 - 01:04:17 CDT
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:36:58PM +1000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> Sam TH wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:46:25PM +1000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > > Hi. I'm back and looking forward to working on Win32
> > > internationalization some more but I can't connect to CVS at all:
> > >
> > > administrator@GUARANA ~/abiword/abi
> > > $ cvs update
> > > Unknown host cvs.abisource.com.
> > >
> > > I've checked the mailing list and there seemed to be no solution.
> > > I've tried modifying my CVS/Root with the IP number which appeared
> > > in the mailing list but that didn't work either.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > This is happening for me too, but I don't know how to fix it. The DNS
> > server with authority for the domain is reporting the correct
> > information, so I don't know why it's taking so long for the rest of
> > the world to behave.
> >
> > As an alternative, you can try using parsons.abisource.com, which is
> > the same host.
>
> Thanks Sam. This seems to work if I edit the CVS/Root file - but there
> are dozens of them. If I edit my /etc/hosts file I get this:
>
> administrator@GUARANA ~/abiword/abi
> $ cvs login
> (Logging in to anoncvs@cvs.abisource.com)
> CVS password:
> for user anoncvsization failed: server cvs.abisource.com rejected
> access to /cvsroot
>
> This is using the password "anoncvs"
>
> Any more ideas?
The following works fine for me
[sam@samth sam]$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.abisource.com:/cvsroot login
(Logging in to anoncvs@cvs.abisource.com)
CVS password: [ anoncvs goes here ]
[sam@samth sam]$
sam th --- sam@uchicago.edu --- http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
OpenPGP Key: CABD33FC --- http://samth.dyndns.org/key
DeCSS: http://samth.dynds.org/decss
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