[Gllug] CVS and SSh

[Jonathan Dye]

> From: Sean Burlington [mailto:sean at uncertainty.org.uk]
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] CVS and SSh
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> On Wednesday 01 May 2002 10:15 am, Simon Stewart wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:37:54PM +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:

<snip>

> > Ahh.. an excellent scheme, flawed only by the fact that it doesn't
> > work :) Doing a "pstree" indicates that sshd is indeed running the 
> > cvs command,
> 
> eh !
> 
> cvs should invoke the ssh client 

On the client machine.

> no reason for the ssh daemon to try and run cvs !!!

There is on the server, where do you think the ssh client connects to?

CLIENT             SERVER
cvs->ssh . . . . .sshd->cvs

> > and attaching an strace to this instance of CVS shows that
> > (again) it's waiting for a read on FD 0 to complete. On the client
> > machine, cvs has started ssh, and this is also waiting for a read to
> > complete. So it looks like ssh is the problem here?
> >
> > I've got hold of the "hang on exit" patch for OpenSSH and applied
> > that, but that doesn't seem to help at all.
> >
> 
> hmmm....
> 
> have you tried the three parts of this seperately
> 
> can you ssh to the remote machine ?
> (and maybe test sftp and scp between the two machines)
> 
> while connected over ssh can you run cvs commands ?
> 
> if you set up a test repository on your client machine can 
> you run cvs purely 
> locally ?

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