Thanks Alex and Martin for the information.
I was trying to follow Alex's instruction on CVS update. But I was quite
confused with the firewall setting. Alex mentioned "If your firewall has an
HTTP proxy". The Internet service for my home is comcast in the US. I don't
think they have an HTTP proxy. So I perform the first two steps from Alex's
list. In step 3, I left 'none' for proxy configuration. Apparently, it
didn't work. As the error is the same as before:
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:
[xian]
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 xian -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(216.34.181.110):2401
failed: Operation timed out
### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1
Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access failed.
Where shall I obtain the HTTP proxy? I called comcast, the guy answering the
phone had no idea about it.
I also also tried it at university. It is the same. I will go to the
informaion technogy center tomorrow to see if they had set up the firewall
in the university network and whether they have the HTTP proxy. But still I
feel confused about the HTTP proxy. What does it actually do?
Sorry for the question.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Alexander Hansen <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 4/27/11 11:51 AM, 罗曼 wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for the information.
> >
> > How could I check the firewall setup. Is the firewall on my laptop or
> > from the internet provider? Originally, I thought I didn't have firewall
> > on my laptop.
> >
> > I will try the mothod you provide to see if it works.
> >
>
> It's most likely set up by your internet provider.
>
> <snip>
>
> - --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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