Re: cvs 1.11.2 server hungs on sigpipe

[Derek Robert Price]

Paul Edwards wrote:

> "Larry Jones" <lawrence.jones@eds.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.2235.1045842423.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
>  
>
> > Alexander Melkov writes:
> >    
> >
> > > What is the "current development version of CVS"?
> > >      
> > The one you get by checking it out -- see:
> >
> > <http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectSource>
> >    
>
> I tried entering those commands from CVS 1.11.5 (Windows executable)
> but it said login aborted (using both "guest" and nothing as my
> password).

Where did you get the executable from?

> So I tried registering and changing "guest" to my new userid,
> and entering my new password.  That didn't work either.
> login aborted, could not find out home directory.

Hrm.  Windows.  Try setting the HOME environment variable to some 
convenient storage directory.  With NT/2000/XP, CVS should compose this 
automatically using the HOMEDRIVE & HOMEPATH environment variables set 
by the OS.

> I don't have SSL, but it sounded like that wasn't required unless
> I was trying to do a commit.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> cvs -d :pserver:guest@cvs.cvshome.org:/cvs login
> cvs -d :pserver:guest@cvs.cvshome.org:/cvs checkout ccvs
>  

This works for me under Linux.  Try my suggestions above.

Derek

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