Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:35:59 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: m3socks and cvsup Message-ID: <XFMail.990617213559.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990617092316.B3119@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
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Udo Schweigert wrote:
> I'm not using m3socks, I use the standard socks5 from ports (current
> version is socks5-1.0.8). To use it (the runsocks program) with
> cvsup one has to build cvsup with dynamic linking (by building port
> net/cvsup), the precompiled package from CD-ROM and the one from
> net/cvsup-bin port will not work.
>
> For example I changed in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/update.sh (contained in
> net/cvsup-mirror port):
>
> < cvsup -1gL 1 -c ${colldir} -h ${host} supfile
> ---
> > runsocks cvsup -P m -1gL 1 -c ${colldir} -h ${host} supfile
>
> As stated before, this works since approx. one year without any problems.
Thanks for the information. I was pretty sure that multiplexed mode
had eliminated the need for a special socks package, but I hadn't
checked it myself.
I recommend adding "@M3novm" to the cvsup command line when using
socks. Otherwise you might get "Bad address" errors occasionally.
John
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