-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/27/11 7:57 PM, 罗曼 wrote: > 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 > <http://pserver:[email protected]:2401/cvsroot/fink> > CVS password: > cvs [login aborted]: connect to fink.cvs.sourceforge.net > <http://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. > >
A HTTP proxy basically redirects all of your Internet traffic to go through a particular port. Do you get the same thing at home as you do at the university? At home it may be the case that your router or modem is set up with a firewall to block all but a few ports--there's not necessarily a proxy set up. You'll have to check that yourself. At the university, it's quite possible that they are also blocking the TCP ports used for CVS and for rsync without having a HTTP proxy. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk24sEgACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+wcQCfTw8MGsFbdxYnT+8txW20Uesk KjkAoKJBHjKQ1pTcy7KCPQKy4ap+Jgqz =YJly -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
