Hi , just wanted to let you know that my cvs problems have been resolved. After testing the cvs commands on linux machines at work and in the adjacent buliding, I proved that it was not a mac problem, and so my system aministrator fixed the permissions, now it works.
Thanks for the help Nick On 26 Feb 2008, at 20:02, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Nick Hall wrote: >>> >>> 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] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:/cvsroot/fink login' >> Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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 >> > (sorry, I just noticed that you sent this a version of this > information earlier--but it's good to be up to date in any case) > > OK--this makes more sense to me. Everything that _you're_ doing is > as it should be, so I'd have to conclude that the firewall isn't > letting you have access. The two commands below are approximately > what fink actually uses. > > cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >:/cvsroot/fink login > cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >:/cvsroot/fink co dists > > It looks like the first one is what is giving out on your box. I > ran these via Cygwin on my less-protected network, and they did what > they should. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
