[cvsnt] CVSNT pserver using cvsd (Linux)

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Jan 22 11:22:00 GMT 2004


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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:11:25 +0000, Tom Wilson <t.wilson at hazid.com>
wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I'm running a CVSNT pserver on a Linux machine (Slackware 8.1), which is accessed by Windows 2000 machines using WinCVS.  I 'upgraded' from standard CVS to CVSNT because I wanted to use the lock server.
>
>if I run CVSNT as a normal inetd pserver it works fine, except that there is a 30-60 sec delay before commands are executed which is annoying if you just want to do something to one file. 

It sounds like your DNS is stuffed.  Get your admin to fix it.

>I don't think it's the lock server causing the delay, because plain CVS had a delay before i ran it using 'cvsd' (http://tiefighter.et.tudelft.nl/~arthur/cvsd/).  After using cvsd for some reason CVS processed commands almost instantly.
>
>Now, however I am unable to use cvsd with CVSNT, I get the following error when I try to login usng cvsd and CVSNT; 'cvs [server aborted]: bad auth protocol start: BEGIN AUTH REQUEST'

>From the sounds of it cvsd forces pserver, and does chroot things.
cvsnt will not work at all in a chroot, as it needs its various
protocol files and associated libraries to work. Personally I'd forget
about cvsd and set a repository prefix instead - this will also allow
you to drop pserver and use a more secure protocol.

Tony




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