[sllug-members]: CVS Issue

[Doran L. Barton]

Not long ago, Knight Walker proclaimed...
> If it's not firewall and it IS listening (I usually test that by
> telnetting to the machine on the port and trying to fake some commands),
> then it has to be a configuration in the CVS server itself.  Maybe it
> will only allow you to login from localhost, not from another machine.
> 
> Last thought: hosts.allow?  hosts.deny?  Since you're using xinetd, you
> are subject to those, and if you've got something about ALL: deny, then
> you can see something like this.

If this is a TCP service, you can just telnet to the port to see if it
really is indeed listening. If the service is handled by xinetd, make sure
/etc/xinetd.d/pserver (or otherwise appropriately named) doesn't have any
parameters that might restrict its access to localhost or something.

-=Fozz

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Doran L. Barton <fozz at xmission.com> - Linux, Perl, Web, good fun, and more!
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