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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Yony Yossef <yonyossef.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: cvsup first time - connection refused
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Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names
>> from this list:
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-IL-CVSUP
>> 
>> I get a Connection refused error.
>> 
>> Help..
>
> First, you should run csup (which is now part of the base system)
> instead of the cvsup port. 

That won't work at all with the standard cvs-supfile, which uses CVS
mode.  

> Then try one of the mirrors in say Greece or Italy or France.
>
> If that doesn't work, check that your firewall or router aren't blocking
> things. 

That's almost certainly the problem.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/