Re: CVS access

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

I often get this message too, but when I retry a couple a times it usually
works. I think it is caused by some limit on concurrent anonymous CVS downloads
or something.

Christian

John S Jacobs Anderson wrote:

> (Apologies if this isn't the proper list; please point me to the correct
> one.)
>
> I'm trying to use CVS (to work around the multiple visual problems of my
> work Solaris box; see the Gnome on Solaris thread for details).
>
> I'm following the instructions on
> <URL:http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html>, and they aren't working. I
> export the CVSROOT variable, but when I do `cvs login`, I get the message:
>
> connect to anoncvs.gnome.org:2401 failed: Connection refused
>
> What am I doing wrong? (Caveat: I did not build the cvs client I'm using;
> it's from our local network, so it's possible that some default setting
> isn't 'stock'.)
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
> john.
>
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