[cvsnt] Re: Cannot RTag using 2.0.51d because lockserver only listens locally???

[Tony Hoyle]

Oliver Giesen wrote:
> I recently upgraded our CVSNT server from 2.0.7 to 2.0.51d and now I've
> stumbled over something odd. Whenever I try to use rtag from a client
> machine I get:
> 
> cvs [rtag aborted]: Error communicating with lock server (send)
> 
> What's this? I thought only the server itself would try to contact the
> lockserver (and if it was the server that emitted this message it would
> have said "cvs server" at the beginning, wouldn't it?). On the server
> the configuration is set to only listen locally and the binding is
> consequently for localhost:2402 (i.e. the installation defaults).
> CVSROOT/config contains "LockServer=localhost:2402".

The client should never contact the lockserver...  2.0.51 had an issue 
where it could lose contact with it but I forget what the exact 
circumstances were.

Tony