CVS connection problem

trican · 02-17-2005, 02:07 PM

Hi,

I setup a cvs server sometime ago - everything works great. A number of linux and wondows are connecting to it via ssh. However over the last few days I reinstalled redhat 9 onmy desktop and despite the fact i can ssh to the server which has the cvs repository - i can 't checkout a module. I get the following error:

<ip_addr>: Connection refused
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

I'm totally stumped :-(

Anyone have ANY idea whats happening??????

ToniT · 02-17-2005, 05:58 PM

Have you set the CVS_RSH environment variable to ssh?
eg.

Code:

export CVS_RSH=ssh

What is the contents of your -d line or CVSROOT environment variable?

trican · 02-18-2005, 02:18 AM

This is from my bashrc file

#CVS Information
export SSH_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT=:ext:USER@IP_ADDR:/usr/local/repos

I really dont think there's any problem with it? On a windows machine I'm using the exact same CVSROOT and have no problem

ToniT · 02-18-2005, 03:56 PM

Hmm..

and the ssh connection to that host works correctly?
eg. line

Code:

ssh USER@IP_ADDR ls /usr/local/repos

works.

trican · 02-18-2005, 06:23 PM

oddly enough it does

trican · 02-22-2005, 12:08 PM

aha just found the problem:

typo instead of having CVS_RSH=ssh I had SSH_RSH=ssh - doh! works now

Btw I found the -t flag with cvs very useful for debugging the connection

ToniT · 02-22-2005, 03:13 PM

Funny I didn't notice that typo when you pasted contents from your bashrc..