Thanks Donald! Adding the sleep to my script fixed the problem.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 11:42 AM
> To: John Tucker
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Project: Setting up CVS
>
>
> Do you have a script that is doing this?
>
> I bet you do. What is happening is that you are causing inetd
> to fork alot of copies of cvs real fast. inetd has a built in
> security measure where it will not let new connections if
> a bunch occurr at the same time( prevents fork bomb like attacks ).
> In your script that is doing the cvs add command put a sleep( 1 )
> between each cvs add.
>
> donald
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:05:12AM -0500, John Tucker wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > After I hammer our Linux CVS server by performing 30 or
> more consecutive
> > "cvs add file..." commands with a CVS client I consistently get the
> > following error message:
> >
> > cvs [remove aborted]: connect to 10.10.0.36:2401
> failed: Connection
> > refused
> >
> > Once this message is received I can't use CVS for up to 5
> minutes without
> > getting
> > that same error message. I can then use it as long as I
> don't submit 30 or
> > more
> > consecutive commands against the server again.
> >
> > Is this just a problem with CVS? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
> >
> > Note: The number 30 was just used as a guestimate and is in
> no way implying
> > 30 as
> > some special number in this equation.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
