[cvsnt] Re: Fork protocol missing?

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Fri Mar 17 23:25:25 GMT 2006


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Bryce Schober wrote:
> I just upgraded our server yesterday, and the pserver authentication
> wouldn't work until I installed the fork protocol. Does that seem
> strange to you? It did to me. A login attempt (before installing the
> fork protocol) looked like this:
> 
> cvs -d :pserver;username=bks;hostname=fileserver:/dynon login
> Logging in to :pserver:bks at fileserver:2401:/dynon
> cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from fileserver: fork
> protocol library is missing entry pointI LOVE YOU
> 
>
It sounds like you had previously installed the fork protocol from an 
old release, and didn't remove it... depending on how old the release 
was the protocol libraries aren't always compatible across versions.

Tony





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