One good debugging tool is to "telnet servername
2401". After connecting, send any text (for example
"foo" followed by return). If CVS is working
correctly, it will respond with
| | cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start: foo
|
If this fails to work, then make sure inetd is working
right. Change the invocation in `inetd.conf' to run the
echo program instead of cvs. For example:
| | 2401 stream tcp nowait root /bin/echo echo hello
|
After making that change and instructing inetd to
re-read its configuration file, "telnet servername
2401" should show you the text hello and then the
server should close the connection. If this doesn't
work, you need to fix it before you can worry about
CVS problems.
On AIX systems, the system will often have its own
program trying to use port 2401. This is AIX's problem
in the sense that port 2401 is registered for use with
CVS. I hear that there is an AIX patch available
to address this problem.
Another good debugging tool is the `-d'
(debugging) option to inetd. Consult your system
documentation for more information.
If you seem to be connecting but get errors like:
| | cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied
|
then either you haven't specified `-f' in `inetd.conf'
or your system is setting the HOME environment variable
for programs being run by inetd. In the latter case, you can either
have inetd run a shell script that unsets HOME and then runs
CVS, or you can use env to run CVS with a pristine
environment.
