CVS on redhat

Linux and Unix-Like Red Hat
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Hi all,

i am trying to set up a CVS server on linux and to remote access the repository using WinCVS. I am facing some problem and i am unsure whether is it the client or the server not set up properly.

In my winCVS client, i clicked Admin ->login and i specify my CVSROOT to be ": pserver:username:@a.b.c.d:2401/usr/mycvs/env1/CVSROOT", (there is not supposed to be a space between ':' and 'pserver', i had to add the space otherwise a smiley comes out) then i got an error message

cvs [login aborted]: Error reading from server a.b.c.d: -1: Unknown error

In my /var/log/message i get

xinetd[23451]: START: cvspserver pid=28566 from=i.j.k.l
xinetd[28566]: libwrap refused connection to cvspserver (libwrap=cvs) from i.j.k.l
xinetd[28566]: FAIL: cvspserver libwrap from=i.j.k.l
xinetd[23451]: EXIT: cvspserver status=0 pid=28566 duration=0(sec)

On my server side my /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver is below. I've checked on net, some resources say i need to name the file cvs, while some say cvspserver. Which is correct?

# default: off
# description: The CVS service can record the history of your source \
#              files. CVS stores all the versions of a file in a single \
#              file in a clever way that only stores the differences \
#              between versions.
service cvspserver
{
        disable                 = no
        port                    = 2401
        socket_type             = stream
        protocol                = tcp
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        passenv                 = PATH
        server                  = /usr/bin/cvs
        env                     = HOME=/usr/mycvs
        server_args             = -f --allow-root=/usr/mycvs/test pserver

}

Currently, my passwd file in my /usr/mycvs/test/CVSROOT has an entry

username:encrypted_password:os_user

where os_user is a valid OS login and has permission on the /usr/mycvs directories.

Would appreciate if anyone can tell me what is incorrect.

2

Your error log posted seems to suggest that something like tcpwrappers blocked the connection. Have you checked the relevant configuration?

3

Hi cbkihong, how to i check that?

4

I'm not too familiar with tcpwrappers. I suggest you to start with the tcpd manpage, and look into the files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.

5

Do you really need to use pserver, or could you run with :ext: over ssh instead? It's probably better in a number of ways.

6

hosts.allow and hosts.deny are the relevant files under /etc. Plenty of docs on them.
Tcpwrappers (as already explained) is the issue..not xinetd.