[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT client and WinXP SP2 w/ CVS server

[George Dinwiddie]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
> Of Tony Hoyle
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:10 PM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: [cvsnt] Re: CVSNT client and WinXP SP2 w/ CVS server
> 
> 
> George Dinwiddie wrote:
> > The SSH connection works fine, but the CVS client hangs.  
> In order to see what was happening on the server side, I 
> experimented with an old CVS (version 1.11) setup I already 
> had on a private machine.  I did some grepping and found 
> reference to a CVS_SERVER_LOG environment variable, but that 
> doesn't seem to be used any more.  It's not mentioned in the 
> latest copy of the CVS manual and it doesn't seem to work.
> 
> There's a problem with cygwin ssh and SP2 - it's not a CVSNT problem. 
> Try a googling for it... quite a bit of software broke.
> 
> Use the :ssh: protocol instead which is much easier to setup 
> and takes 
> cygwin out of the loop.
> 
> If you really must use cygwin, it's been reported that downgrading to 
> cygwin 1.5.10-3 fixes the problem (ref: 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01209.html)

Tony, I'm not sure I understand.  The Cygwin CVS client with Cygwin SSH works fine.

However, I just replaced cygwin1.dll version 1.5.11 with version 1.5.9 and it seems to work.

Thanks for your help.

 - George