[NTLUG:Discuss] Updating (committing) to SourceForge

[Steve Baker]

Bruce DeGrasse wrote:
> I have been unable to update a sourceforge project and need help.  This has 
> taken toooooo much of my time.  The project is a Genealogy program called 
> gramps (which I recommend).  I have generated two report generators for it 
> and would like to update the CVS repository for it.  I have been cleared as 
> "gramps developer" and the ssh login seems to work.  Can anyone help me debug 
> my problem, I have tried this as root and as normal user.
> 
> I am running Mandrake 9.0 and am sitting behind a Linksys router.  From the 
> sourceforge documentation this is a firewall problem but the solution (config 
> file with UsePrivilegedPort no) does not seem to solve my problem.
> 
> My procedure is as follows:
> 
> Genrerate ~/.ssh/config  file
> edit in UsePrivilegedPort no per sourceforge docs
> 
> Example command sequence (hangs on commit as well):
> cd ~/bruce/Genealogy/gramps
> export CVS_RSH=ssh
> ssh -l username shell.sourceforge.net
> <shell>cvs -d:ext:username at cvsgramps.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/gramps diff
> ****hang****

Some firewalls truly do prevent you from using CVS at all.

One of the developers of my Sourceforge project is the victim of
a firewall like that and he's struggled long and hard at trying to
get CVS checkins past it - with absolutely no success.

You may be luckier - but there is no absolute guarantee of success.

Some sysadmins seem to think that cutting the wire to the outside
world is the only truly effective firewall...<sigh>

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