Re: Password or Set-up Problem?

[Larry Jones]

Phil Shrimpton writes:
> 
> if I change the inetd.conf to...
> 
> cvspserver  stream  tcp  nowait  root /bin/echo echo hello
> 
> ...it 'welcomes' me with 'hello' and then disconnects with
> 
> 'Connection closed by foreign host'.

OK, what happens when you change it back to run cvs and telnet to it as
suggested in the manual?

> Tried with and with out an "-f", no joy..

-f won't have any effect on this problem (which is almost certainly an
inetd problem rather than a cvs problem), but you'll probably want it
when you're running cvs for real.

-Larry Jones

I kind of resent the manufacturer's implicit assumption
that this would amuse me. -- Calvin