failed" that the connection wasn't actually happening. Can you
please post
the _complete_ results of an attempt to run "fink selfupdate" so
that we can
see what is going on here? Actually, do "fink -vvv selfupdate" to
crank up
the verbosity to make sure that nothing gets missed.
OK here it is - It certainly appears to be asking me for a password -
first I have to put in my mac admin password, which I obviously enter,
then it asks for a CVS password which I assume applies to the remote
machine.
For this I just hit return. (I've also tried my admin password again,
and my email address as if it were
anonymous ftp, but no success).
So it appears my CVS experience is different from that of Lloyd Wood,
who posted earlier.
(a quick spotlight search for cvs shows I have a unix executable in my
Developer directory.
I also have Xcode. I have no special security settings activated in
security preferences - all
my security comes from the lab firewall. )
mac-hall:~ hall$
mac-hall:~ hall$
mac-hall:~ hall$ fink -vvv selfupdate
Password:
Fink has the capability to run the CVS commands as a normal user. That
has some advantages - it uses that user's CVS settings files and
allows the package
descriptions to be edited and updated without becoming root. Please
specify the user login name that should be used: [hall]
For Fink developers only: Enter your SourceForge login name to set up
full CVS access. Other users, just press return to set up anonymous
read-only
access. [anonymous]
Checking to see if we can use hard links to merge the existing tree.
Please ignore errors on the next few lines.
Now logging into the CVS server. When CVS asks you for a password,
just press return (i.e. the password is empty).
/usr/bin/su hall -c 'cvs -
d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink login'
Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvsroot/
fink
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: connect to fink.cvs.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.97):
2401 failed: Network is unreachable
### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1
Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access
failed.
mac-hall:~ hall$
mac-hall:~ hall$
so what command should I ask my administrator to issue from a linux
machine ?
(obviously "fink selfupdate" won't get him anywhere).
thanks
Nick
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