[Users] Fwd: cvs pserver timeout

[Tom Goodale]

Do you have access to a machine outside of your firewall that you 
could set up a tunnel via ?  I.e. you'd still use pserver but use a tunnel 
out of your network.

Cheers,

Tom


On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Scott Hawley wrote:

> Thanks David.  I actually already have "setenv CVS_RSH ssh" set.  I
> see one problem in that GetCactus uses pserver instead of "ext"
> access, and another problem in that I don't actually have a valid
> login at cvs.cactuscode.org in order for ssh to work.
> -Scott
>
>
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> Scott H. Hawley, Ph.D.                     Asst. Prof. of Physics
> Chemistry & Physics Dept               Office: Hitch 100D
> Belmont University                            Tel:  +1-615-460-6206
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>
> On Nov 29, 2006, at 11:35 AM, David Rideout wrote:
>
>> [[My first attempt to send this bounced.]]
>>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> Have you tried ssh port forwarding?  i.e. tell your cvs client to use
>> the cvs server on your local machine, and then forward that port to
>> cvs.cactuscode.org via ssh.  I forget the command to do this at the
>> moment but you can probably sort it out.  Or someone else on the list
>> may explain.  A problem is that you will have to switch the port
>> forwarding for each different cvs server (repository?) you use.  But a
>> script might make this not too painful.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>> On 11/29/06, Scott Hawley <hawleys at mail.belmont.edu> wrote:
>>> Thanks Yakoub...  I'm guessing the problem really *is* on my (or my
>>> university's) end, not something wrong with the Cactus repository.
>>> But what should one "look at" locally when fixing this sort of
>>> thing?   I'm running on a fairly new Linux box running RHEL 9, and
>>> behind some kind of ^$%^&in firewall.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scott H. Hawley, Ph.D.                     Asst. Prof. of Physics
>>> Chemistry & Physics Dept               Office: Hitch 100D
>>> Belmont University                            Tel:  +1-615-460-6206
>>> Nashville, TN 37212 USA                Fax: +1-615-460-5458
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 29, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Yaakoub Y El Khamra wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Scott
>>>> I have just checked the cactus cvs server, everything seems fine.
>>>> As I
>>>> am in LSU, I will run more tests from off-campus to make sure. An
>>>> alternative method to checkout Cactus would be the nightly tarball:
>>>> http://www.cactuscode.org/old/Development/CactusDev.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> I hope this helps
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yaakoub
>>>>
>>>> Scott Hawley wrote:
>>>>> Hi.  When I try to run the GetCactus script, the cvs requests
>>>>> always
>>>>> seem to hang, and nothing happens...
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm behind a firewall at my university, but they claim they don't
>>>>> block outbound port requests (e.g. port 2401 for pserver access).
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have a suggestion so I can get code from the Cactus cvs
>>>>> repository?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Scott
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Scott H. Hawley, Ph.D.                     Asst. Prof. of Physics
>>>>> Chemistry & Physics Dept               Office: Hitch 100D
>>>>> Belmont University                            Tel:  +1-615-460-6206
>>>>> Nashville, TN 37212 USA                Fax: +1-615-460-5458
>>>>>
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