Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:01:23 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: jgcarri@pasadena.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CVSup never finishes Message-ID: <3E4AFC73.70401@potentialtech.com> References: <200302112029.39368.jgcarri@pasadena.edu> <200302121302.18680.jgcarri@pasadena.edu> <3E4AB6D0.1040904@potentialtech.com> <200302121320.24194.jgcarri@pasadena.edu>
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John Carri wrote: > Earlier I wrote about my never-ending CVSups: > >>>And so on. It appears that the process of downloading patches completes, >>>cvsup hits the "Cleaning up" phase, then fails to terminate and does the >>>whole thing over and over and over. >>> >>>Any suggestions? >> > ------------------------------------- > Bill Moran suggests: > >> This is a shot in the dark but ... >>Do you have a firewall and/or any type of filtering that could be >>causing problems? > > -------------------------------------- > CVSup worked fine a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't changed anything on my > FreeBSD box since the last successful CVSup, other than trying several > different cvsup sources today. I'm on a school network, though, and it's > possible that the network administrators have changed something campus-wide. > Any way I could diagnose if this is the problem? Perhaps running tcpdump while cvsup is running and see if packets are going unanswered. You might also contact your campus IT folks and see if they'll talk to you. You wouldn't think they'd intentionally block cvsup. > FWIW, I just tried building a port (CUPS), and that worked just fine, so FTP > transfers do not seem to be a problem. CVSUP doesn't use FTP or FTP ports (to my knowledge). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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