Re: ssh on a non-standard port.

[Todd Denniston]

C.G.Senthilkumar. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm tunneling my cvs through ssh. However, ssh on the cvsserver runs on
> a non-standard port(2999 not port 22).
>
> Settin CVS_RSH doesn't work. I get the following error upon a cvs status
> check.
> $ export CVS_RSH="ssh -p 2999"
> $ cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/home/cheetanc/repository status file1
> cvs [status aborted]: cannot exec ssh -p31899: No such file or directory
> cvs [status aborted]: received broken pipe signal
>
> There are no firewall issues. Plain ssh login such as:
> $ ssh -p 2999 cvsserver
> gives me a passowrd prompt and I'm able to login.
>
> Sure, this seems like a trivial question, but the archives don't turn up
> anything. Both client and server machines run linux.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.

suggestions:
1) man ssh_config
  [and use that to interpret the following command]
2) echo "#setup cvsserver to use port 2999" >> ~/.ssh/config
 echo -e"Host cvsserver\n\tPort 2999" >> ~/.ssh/config

[another method, assumes bash is your shell]
3) echo "ssh -p 2999 \$@" > ~/myssh;chmod +x ~/myssh;
   export CVS_RSH=~/myssh

There may be better methods out there, but I think items 1 & 2 are the best 
way I know of.

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Todd Denniston
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