Re: help on pserver connection

[kent emia]

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 12:02, address@hidden wrote:
> On Fri 10 Oct 03, 11:43 AM, kent emia <address@hidden> said:
> > hello to all.. ... as of the moment i succesfully setup a winNT CVS
> > server and its not that hard at all. workstations can login/logout
> > checkin/checkout files
> > 
> > but since we are switching all workstations to linux, i want to try it
> > in linux. im having hard time seting up a CVS SERVER in a redhat9
> > environment. 
> > 
> > im encountering this problem:
> > 'cvs [login aborted]: reading from server: Connection reset by peer'
> > 
> > as i've read
> > http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.7/cvs_21.html#SEC184 it says
> > that i am missing pserver in my 'inetd.conf' but i have it right there
> > this is my 'inetd.conf' file
> > 
> > cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs
> > --allow-root=/repo pserver
> > 
> > that is in one line
> > 
> > running 'nmap localhost' on the server i can see 
> > '2401/tcp   open        cvspserver' in it.. 
> > 
> > im wondering what else could be wrong....
> 
> hi kent,
> 
> i'm a cvs newbie, but here are some ideas:
> 
> 1. anytime you edit /etc/inetd.conf, you need to restart the inetd service
>    by doing:
> 
>       /etc/init.d/inetd restart

im did restart it...

> 
>    i thought redhat used xinetd, though (i'm exclusively debian).

ok

> 
> 
> 2. try using tcpdump to make sure packets are being received:
> 
>    tcpdump -i eth0 tcp port 2401

here's the output

address@hidden admin]# tcpdump -i eth0 tcp port 2401
tcpdump: listening on eth0
13:06:52.120827 leprechaun.cdr.com.55072 > genesis.cdr.com.cvspserver: S
1493157523:1493157523(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 10302474
0,nop,wscale 0> (DF)
13:06:52.120899 genesis.cdr.com.cvspserver > leprechaun.cdr.com.55072: S
1166485185:1166485185(0) ack 1493157524 win 5792 <mss
1460,sackOK,timestamp 8746928 10302474,nop,wscale 0> (DF)
13:06:52.121104 leprechaun.cdr.com.55072 > genesis.cdr.com.cvspserver: .
ack 1 win 5840 <nop,nop,timestamp 10302474 8746928> (DF)
13:06:52.121482 leprechaun.cdr.com.55072 > genesis.cdr.com.cvspserver: P
1:71(70) ack 1 win 5840 <nop,nop,timestamp 10302474 8746928> (DF)
13:06:52.121518 genesis.cdr.com.cvspserver > leprechaun.cdr.com.55072: .
ack 71 win 5792 <nop,nop,timestamp 8746928 10302474> (DF)
13:06:52.123421 genesis.cdr.com.cvspserver > leprechaun.cdr.com.55072: R
1:1(0) ack 71 win 5792 <nop,nop,timestamp 8746928 10302474> (DF)

from the client
address@hidden kent]$ cvs login
Logging in to :pserver:address@hidden:2401/repo
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: reading from server: Connection reset by peer
address@hidden kent]$


> 
> 3. don't forget your log files.  i'm not sure where your syslogd will
>    put the logs on redhat, so you can just grep for them:
> 
>    # cd /var/log
>    # grep cvs * | 
there's no cvs

>    there *should* be something in there.
im wondering why there's no log...

> 
> 4. look in /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow.  many people put
>    "ALL: ALL" in /etc/hosts.deny and only "allow" services on a host by
>    host (or network by network) basis.  this is the most secure way to
>    firewall: shut everything off and then turn stuff on little by
>    little, rather than allowing everything and walling things off
>    service by service.

my hosts.deny is empty and so is host.allow .... 


> 
> hth,
> pete
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