cvsup for sourceforge & other similar sites.

[Vizion]

On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:45,  the author Vizion contributed to the 
dialogue on-
 Re: cvsup for sourceforge & other similar sites.: 

>On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:34,  the author Giorgos Keramidas contributed
> to the dialogue on-
>
> Re: cvsup for sourceforge & other similar sites.:
>>On 2005-08-25 15:40, Vizion <vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am wanting to cvs automatically - but I seem to fail to get into
>>> sourceforge (either command line or using cron) -- by using cvsup on
>>> the ports tree I have become lazy and confused by the cvs manual!! (I
>>> do wish freebsd manuals had more detailed examples!!). I used to do
>>> this stuff regularly (longer ago than I care to admit) - but it takes
>>> time to get back into it!
>>

<snip>
>>>
>>> dns1# ls -l
>>> total 0
>>>
>>> /* Try again adding '.' after eclipseexul */
>>> dns1# cvs -f -d :pserver:anonymous at cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/eclipsexul. login
>>> Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at cvs.sf.net:2401/cvsroot/eclipsexul.
>>> CVS password:
>>> cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.sf.net: M -!-
>>> Client or Server timeout occurred!
>>>
>>> /*I just seem to get errors from cvs! I guess I need to find out what I
>>> am doing wrong*/
>>
>>Sourceforge problems, as far as I can tell.
>
>Thanks
>
>I have taken it up with sourceforge - hopefullty I will get an answer..
>
>Thanks for your time
You were right -- twas sourceforge .. they contacted me after fixing their 
server and it now works! I made a bad call and assumed it was my error!
David


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