I managed to successfully compile and install 1.12.12 on CentOS 4.1.

I ran "cvs init" and gave permissions to /usr/local/cvsroot to the cvs group that I created.

I can't access it from Eclipse on my Windows station.

I get the "Cannot connect to host" error message.

I think that it is because port is 2401 is closed. Nmap report it as closed but I allow inbound traffic thru port 2401 in Firestarter (Iptables is disabled). CVS is the only app that I can't access.

What should I do next?

How can I open port 2401 without using Iptables ?

Thanks.

Simon

Are you sure that the daemon is running? Do you run it, through (x)inetd? Run "netstat -tan" in the box you installed cvs to see if port 2401 is LISTENing.

I think that this is the problem....

Would adding this to xinetd.conf works: cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs pserver

?

Nevermind, I got it to work

I created a cvspserver file in /etc/xinetd.d which contains:

service cvspserver
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
passenv =
server = /usr/bin/cvs
server_args = -f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
disable = no
}

Whew, I'm pretty happy now

Thanks for poiting me in the right direction.