[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT installer does not start the services....
Tony Hoyle
tmh at nodomain.org
Sun Aug 1 11:33:56 BST 2004
Bo Berglund wrote:
> 2) After the install was done I was prompted to restart the PC, but I
> did not want to do this since I know all files are really up to date
> and registered so I refrained.
If the installer requests a restart there's probably a reason...
> 3) At this point the install was over and to my astonishment the CVS
> services that were stopped at the beginning of the install were not
> restarted...
Did you check the 'start service' option?
> Why can the installer not start the services after it has finished,
> epecially if it is doing an upgrade????
See answer to (3)
> It would be very simple to put two net start commands in the run
> section of the Innosetup installation script, really.
They are there...
> QUESTION2:
> Which registry entries are created/modified by whom?
> - Installer? Should at least add all new items...
> - CVSNT on startup?
> - Control Panel applet?
See the readme file. It's not a simple answer any more due to upgrade
etc. It's far too complex for the installer on its own to handle so the
postinst does a lot of the work.
> STRANGE ERROR MESSAGE WORDING
> Anyway, when this happens the result is that client receive the
> infamous error message:
> "cvs [version aborted]: connect to altair:2401 failed: No connection
> could be made because the target machine actively refused it."
This is a system error message and nothing to do with CVSNT - I'm not
about to start inventing my own wording for all the combinations of
error message.
Tony
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