Thanks for the clarification on the cvs executable. However, I've already killed and restarted the inetd several times. That's why I followed the advice from another post and just put echo hello as the executable that was called.
>From the local system when I do a "telnet hostname 2401" I get the following response: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused There should not be any firewall issue. Any further advice would be appreciated. --- Larry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jesse Driver writes: > > > > The first surprising > > thing I noticed is the file has a .gz extension, > but > > cannot be gunzipped or unzipped: > > That frequently happens when you download with a > browser -- the browser > automagically unzips the file but doesn't remove the > .gz from the name. > > > My assumption at this point is that CVS is > actually > > just one executable that you put in the > /usr/local/bin > > directory, so I installed it that way. > > Correct. > > > But now I am tryin gto get remote access to work. > I've > > made the additions to the inetd.conf and > /etc/services > > files, but I get a connection refused. > > You need to tell inetd to reread its configuration > file, usually by > sending it a SIGHUP. See your inetd man page for > details. > > > My quesion is that over in the /etc/services file > I > > have the following lines: > > cvspserver 2401/tcp > > cvspserver 2401/udp > > > > Doesn;t there need to be an executable named > > cvspserver somewhere? > > No, those are service names, not executable names. > You inetd config > file entry is what ties the cvspserver service to > the /usr/local/bin/cvs > executable. And note that CVS doesn't use UDP, so > you should get rid of > the second line (although it doesn't hurt anything > to have it, nothing > will ever use it). > > -Larry Jones > > But Mom, frogs are our FRIENDS! -- Calvin > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-cvs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
