Re: [boost] Problems with CVS?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-14 08:24:54

At 01:27 PM 7/13/2003, Marshall Clow wrote:
 >>At 11:49 AM 7/9/2003, Marshall Clow wrote:
 >>
 >>>At 7:09 PM -0700 7/6/03, Marshall Clow wrote:
 >>>>The last 3 or 4 times that I have tried to check out the "latest
 >>  >>boost", the checkout gets most of the way through, and then hangs.
 >>  >
 >>>Is anyone else seeing this, or am I the only one?
 >>
 >>If you are accessing CVS via SSH (developer), you should not have
 >>any problem. In fact CVS access has been very fast and reliable
 >>lately for me doing SSH access.
 >
 >Beman -
 >I've read the SF docs, generated some keys, and attempted to
 >connect to SF using SSH -- all I've got is a bunch of timeouts.
 >
 >I would sure appreciate it if you would send me a couple of CVS commands
 >that you use to do this.

I use:

    cvs -z9 update -P -d

My CVS_RSH environmental variable is set to the path of the ssh program I 
use. It takes care of all the security stuff; from my perspective it is 
just magic that works without any action on my part.

I just glanced at the S/F Mac OS documentation, and it doesn't seem to give 
a test procedure. The Windows docs have a "Testing automatic 
authentication" section. The idea being to verify the ssh setup using the 
facilities of the ssh client program before actually trying to execute any 
cvs commands. That would seem to be a sensible approach. Some ssh clients 
have "verbose" modes that help greatly in debugging authentication issues.

HTH,

--Beman