It is used by your client so that it knows what port to connect to on the
server. Thus, the server uses cvspserver to identify which port to listen on
for incoming connections. The client uses cvspserver to identify which port
to connect to on the repository server.
Since I was using a non-standard port number, I have to have cvspserver on
the client so that the client knows to connect to the non-standard port
number. If you use the standard cvs port number it is probably not required
because the client defaults to the standard if it does not find cvspserver
in the services file.
Regards
John.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 28 July 2000 14:13
To: 'John Scott'
Subject: RE: Can CVS do it?
> From: John Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> All I did to get this working was:
>
> On all the machines that need access to the repository, and
> on the repository, add the following entry to the services file:
>
> cvspserver 11001/tcp # cvs pserver
Why would I need that? The (CVS) Server is not making the connection
to my local machine, is it? Besides, since this entry is not used
in inetd.conf, it is useless... (for the client machines, that is)
Just my $0.02,
Guus
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