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Re: Cannot connect to CVS -help!



Incoming from Siju George:
> 
> I tried to connect to the cvs server(its on a debian woody
> 3.0r2) from a windows 2000 system using eclipse but received the following
> error message.
> 
> "Error fetching resource list from repository.
> 
>             Reason:
>             I/O Exception occurred: Connection Refused: Server configuration
> missing
> 
> Could you please tell me why this happened and could you also guide me how
> to rectify this error?

Just a shot in the dark: are you running identd, and have you opened
up port 113/tcp for it?  You might also try fauxident instead of
identd.  It's sufficient to fake out some servers' requirements.

And are you running as root?  Why?


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