Beginer CVS question

[gl...@ca.ibm.com]

My appolgies if this isn't the right place for this kind of question, but
I'm at a point where I need a pointer or two.

Knowing that the version of Ant that I'm using is more than a little out of
date (its the one that comes with the 3.1 release build of Tomcat), I
wanted to get the latest CVS version to bring myself up to date.  I'd like
to be able to remove some of the custom code I've written with the core and
optional features of Ant.  I've gotten a socksified CVS 1.10.x client for
my AIX box, and WinCVS for the Windows box.  Unfortunately, they both give
me the same error message.

According to the instructions at
http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/cvsindex.html for anonymous CVS, I
need to execute

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@jakarta.apache.org:<home_dir_here> login

and provide the password anoncvs before I can checkout the appropriate
jakarta-ant module.

The _very_ consistent error message I get back is:
cvs login: authorization failed: server jakarta.apache.org rejected access

Am I just using the wrong password?  Or am I doing something
stupid/naive/beginer like? :-)

Thanks.

Glenn McAllister
TID - Software Developer - VisualAge for Java
IBM Toronto Lab, (416) 448-3805
"An approximate answer to the right question is better than the
right answer to the wrong question." - John W. Tukey

Re: Beginer CVS question

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@bost.de>]

>>>>> "g" == glennm  <gl...@ca.ibm.com> writes:

 g> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@jakarta.apache.org:<home_dir_here> login

where <home_dir_here> is /home/cvspublic, yes? This should work,
anything else will probably fail as user anoncvs will not be allowed
to access the data.

Stefan

Re: Beginer CVS question

[Peter Donald <do...@mad.scientist.com>]

At 09:40  27/6/00 -0400, you wrote:

>cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@jakarta.apache.org:<home_dir_here> login

you aren't typing that but instead

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@jakarta.apache.org:/home/cvspublic login
right ?

and then just type 
cvs co jakarta-ant

works for me ... 


Cheers,

Pete

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