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Timwi wrote:

>
> I'm getting really fed up with the continuing problems with the CVS
> server. I don't see how I can do anything productive like this.
>
> Would it be feasible if we set up a CVS server of our own rather than
> using Sourceforge's? Would it produce a lot of traffic if we just used
> one of the Wikipedia servers?

Sorry, but you seem to be the only one having problems with Sourceforge.

You are useing cvs.sourcforge.net as server (which is the developer
cvs-server, instead of the public cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net Server)?

Setting up a CVS Server is the cosing activity, not the traffic. And keep
it secure.

--
Smurf

smurf@AdamAnt.mud.de
------------------------- Anthill inside! ---------------------------

Well, he is not the only one having problems. I was never able to make a
connection either and finally gave up and used phase 2.

Fred

> From: Thomas Corell <T.Corell@t-online.de>
> Reply-To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:51:47 +0200
> To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Continuing CVS server problems
>
> Timwi wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm getting really fed up with the continuing problems with the CVS
>> server. I don't see how I can do anything productive like this.
>>
>> Would it be feasible if we set up a CVS server of our own rather than
>> using Sourceforge's? Would it produce a lot of traffic if we just used
>> one of the Wikipedia servers?
>
> Sorry, but you seem to be the only one having problems with Sourceforge.
>
> You are useing cvs.sourcforge.net as server (which is the developer
> cvs-server, instead of the public cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net Server)?
>
> Setting up a CVS Server is the cosing activity, not the traffic. And keep
> it secure.
>
> --
> Smurf
>
> smurf@AdamAnt.mud.de
> ------------------------- Anthill inside! ---------------------------
>
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Fred Bauder wrote:

>Well, he is not the only one having problems. I was never able to make a
>connection either and finally gave up and used phase 2.
>
Hmm... bad news. :(

I've uploaded a snapshot of phase 3 to the files section, and also put
it on our website:

http://download.wikipedia.org/wikipedia-snapshot-20030710.tar.gz

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Thomas Corell wrote:
>
> You are useing cvs.sourcforge.net as server (which is the developer
> cvs-server, instead of the public cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net Server)?

I didn't know that. Nor did I know I was supposed to use ssh instead of
pserver. So I tried that, and this is what I get now:

In Linux:

/c/Wikipedia> export CVS_RSH=ssh
/c/Wikipedia> cvs -z3 -d:ext:Timwi@cvs.sourcforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia
co phase3
ssh: cvs.sourcforge.net: Name or service not known
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
if any)

What am I doing wrong here?


In Windows:

cvs checkout -P phase3 (in directory C:\Wikipedia)
cvs [checkout aborted]: Connection to server failed

... although the true cause of this could be that I don't have a Windows
port of ssh. Anyone know where I can get one?


Thanks,
Timwi

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Timwi wrote:
> Thomas Corell wrote:
> >
> > You are useing cvs.sourcforge.net as server (which is the developer
> > cvs-server, instead of the public cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net Server)?
>
> I didn't know that. Nor did I know I was supposed to use ssh instead of
> pserver. So I tried that, and this is what I get now:

Hrm, you _did_ read http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=34373 right?

> ssh: cvs.sourcforge.net: Name or service not known
>
> What am I doing wrong here?

Try cvs.sourcEforge.net :)

(Also I don't know if it would consider usernames to be case-sensitive.
Try 'timwi' if 'Timwi' doesn't get you anywhere.)

> ... although the true cause of this could be that I don't have a Windows
> port of ssh. Anyone know where I can get one?

http://www.cygwin.com/

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Hi Brion,

first of all, thanks a lot for all your patience in trying to track down
this problem for me. However, I've as yet still been unsuccessful:

Brion Vibber wrote:

> Hrm, you _did_ read http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=34373 right?

No. I don't remember anyone linking to that before. Thanks.

> Try cvs.sourcEforge.net :)

Oops, how embarrassing :-)

Now I'm getting this in Linux:

/c/Wikipedia> cvs -z3
-d:ext:timwi@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia co phase3
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
if any)

The first time I tried, it took about 10 minutes or so until it produced
this error. Now it does it immediately.

> http://www.cygwin.com/

cvs checkout -P phase3 (in directory C:\wikipedia)
Could not create directory '/home/Timwi/.ssh'.
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

:-(

(Anyone know how to tell the Cygwin ssh not to try to create Unix
filepaths? o.O)


Again, thanks for any help you can offer,
Timwi

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Timwi wrote:
> Now I'm getting this in Linux:
>
> /c/Wikipedia> cvs -z3
> -d:ext:timwi@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia co phase3
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
> if any)
>
> The first time I tried, it took about 10 minutes or so until it produced
> this error. Now it does it immediately.

I did a fresh checkout about an hour ago just to make sure it works (from
my OS X machine at work), and had no problem.

Let's diagnose this thing...

ssh -v timwi@cvs.sourceforge.net

What do you get?

> Could not create directory '/home/Timwi/.ssh'.
> (Anyone know how to tell the Cygwin ssh not to try to create Unix
> filepaths? o.O)

Why don't you just create /home/Timwi? (Probably under c:\cygwin; if you
installed as administrator, double-check the permissions.)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Brion Vibber wrote:

> Why don't you just create /home/Timwi? (Probably under c:\cygwin; if
> you installed as administrator, double-check the permissions.)

That did it! I didn't know it interpreted those paths to be under C:\cygwin.

Thanks, I've got CVS working now! Yay!

*gives you a very special hug*

Greetings,
Timwi

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Timwi wrote:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
>
> > Why don't you just create /home/Timwi? (Probably under c:\cygwin; if
> > you installed as administrator, double-check the permissions.)
>
> That did it! I didn't know it interpreted those paths to be under C:\cygwin.
>
> Thanks, I've got CVS working now! Yay!
>
> *gives you a very special hug*

Congratulations! Just don't go rewriting the whole thing in perl before
you've figured out how the current code works, now... ;)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)