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Subject: Re: Cannot CVSUP - permission denied.
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On Friday 19 November 2004 09:11 pm, robg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running 5.3 and behind a firewall, tried cvsuping and spits back:
>
> Parsing supfile "ports-supfile"
> Connecting to cvsup3.us.FreeBSD.org
> Cannot connect to cvsup3.us.FreeBSD.org: Permission denied
> Will retry at 00:14:51
>
> People said it might be because of the firewall ,but I never had this
> problem before when I ran the same firewall script.  Do certain ports
> need to be opened?
>
> Thanks.

Try a different server, Also, try out /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup
it helps you find a a working server

-Mike