Re: cannot find pserver to setup remote cvs server

[Larry Jones]

Shane McDaniel writes:
> 
> When I try to do a cvs login from another machine I get the error message
> "Unknown command: 'pserver'"  after I specify a password.

That indicates that your CVS executable doesn't include the server
functionality.  If you run "cvs -v", you should see something like:

        Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.1.1 (client/server)

Note in particular the "client/server" part -- that indicates that the
executable includes both client and server functionality in addition to
stand-alone functionality.  If you built CVS yourself from source, you
can look at the configure output (or send it here) to figure out why the
server functionality wasn't included.  If you got an executable from
someone else, you can ask them about it or build it yourself.

> and why is www.cvshome.org such a slow server?  It takes about a minute to
> load each page and I have a large pipe where I work.

It must be a network problem between you and it -- it works fine for me.

-Larry Jones

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