Creating local doc repository

[Steve Bertrand]

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:01:05AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>
>> #*default tag=RELENG_4
>> *default host=cvsup-master.FreeBSD.org
>> *default release=cvs
>> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
>> *default prefix=/home/steve/doc
>> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>> *default umask=002
>> cvsroot-doc
>>
>> ...with the following result (after successfully connecting to the
>> server):
>>
>> Authentication required, but could not open "/home/steve/.cvsup/auth"
>
> cvsup-master.freebsd.org is set up to only allow other official mirror
> sites (cvsup.freebsd.org. cvsup1.freebsd.org, etc) to connect to it.
>
> Try another of the official mirror sites, they allow connections from
> any host.  You might try using 'ping' first to see if you can locate
> a server close to you network-wise, though some servers are more
> overloaded
> than others.  Or you can just use mine, cvsup9.freebsd.org... :-)
>

Indeed, as soon as I changed the hostname from cvsup-master, the
authentication error dissapeared and I'm now happily aquiring the required
files.

Thanks for all the adivce ;o)

Steve

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