Hi!,
Lamar Thomas wrote: > > William Daffer wrote: > > > "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I am running RH 7.1 and CVS 1.11-3 using the bash shell. When I try and > > > connect to cvs I get the following error: "Connection refused". Anyone > > > have any ideas? Thanks for any help. > > > > > > Lamar > > > > I take it you're connecting to a remote server? > > > > Are you using RSH as the transport? What is the value of CVS_RSH? > > > > Assuming you are: is rshd installed? (or is it rexecd, it's been so > > long since I installed those Sun RPC facilities) <rpm -q rsh> > > > > If installed, does the server have `rsh' chkconfig'd on? This is > > part of the xinetd configuration. <man chkconfig> <man xinetd> > > > > If installed and chkconfig'd on, does the server's > > /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} allow such a connection? <man hosts_access> > > > > You can use SSH by setting CVS_RSH to 'ssh'. That's a safer way to > > do it anyway. > > > > whd > > -- > > ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of > > the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the > > last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high > > degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is > > rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn. > > -- Ambrose Bierce: _The Devil's Dictionary_ > > No, I am trying to connect from the server it self. Have you checked that there are no firewalls blocking the connection and that the server service has been started. A look at the "netstat -anp" connections will tell you whether or not it is listening for incoming connections. See ya Dean Thompson -- +____________________________+____________________________________________+ | Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180 | | PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus> | | School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) | | MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 | | Melbourne, Australia | | +----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs