Well, he is not the only one having problems. I was never able to make a connection either and finally gave up and used phase 2.

Fred

From: Thomas Corell T.Corell@t-online.de Reply-To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:51:47 +0200 To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Continuing CVS server problems

Timwi wrote:

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I'm getting really fed up with the continuing problems with the CVS server. I don't see how I can do anything productive like this.

Would it be feasible if we set up a CVS server of our own rather than using Sourceforge's? Would it produce a lot of traffic if we just used one of the Wikipedia servers?

Sorry, but you seem to be the only one having problems with Sourceforge.

You are useing cvs.sourcforge.net as server (which is the developer cvs-server, instead of the public cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net Server)?

Setting up a CVS Server is the cosing activity, not the traffic. And keep it secure.

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Thomas Corell wrote:

You are useing cvs.sourcforge.net as server (which is the developer cvs-server, instead of the public cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net Server)?

I didn't know that. Nor did I know I was supposed to use ssh instead of pserver. So I tried that, and this is what I get now:

In Linux:

/c/Wikipedia> export CVS_RSH=ssh /c/Wikipedia> cvs -z3 -d:ext:Timwi@cvs.sourcforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia co phase3 ssh: cvs.sourcforge.net: Name or service not known cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

What am I doing wrong here?

In Windows:

cvs checkout -P phase3 (in directory C:\Wikipedia) cvs [checkout aborted]: Connection to server failed

... although the true cause of this could be that I don't have a Windows port of ssh. Anyone know where I can get one?

Thanks, Timwi

Hi Brion,

first of all, thanks a lot for all your patience in trying to track down this problem for me. However, I've as yet still been unsuccessful:

Brion Vibber wrote:

Hrm, you _did_ read http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=34373 right?

No. I don't remember anyone linking to that before. Thanks.

Try cvs.sourcEforge.net :)

Oops, how embarrassing :-)

Now I'm getting this in Linux:

/c/Wikipedia> cvs -z3 -d:ext:timwi@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia co phase3 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

The first time I tried, it took about 10 minutes or so until it produced this error. Now it does it immediately.

http://www.cygwin.com/

cvs checkout -P phase3 (in directory C:\wikipedia) Could not create directory '/home/Timwi/.ssh'. ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

:-(

(Anyone know how to tell the Cygwin ssh not to try to create Unix filepaths? o.O)

Again, thanks for any help you can offer, Timwi

Brion Vibber wrote:

Why don't you just create /home/Timwi? (Probably under c:\cygwin; if you installed as administrator, double-check the permissions.)

That did it! I didn't know it interpreted those paths to be under C:\cygwin.

Thanks, I've got CVS working now! Yay!

*gives you a very special hug*

Greetings, Timwi