Re: [Savannah-hackers] address@hidden: GNU servers down]

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On Monday 03 January 2005 03:56 pm, address@hidden wrote:
>    From: "Michael J. Flickinger" <address@hidden>
>    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:45:36 -0500
>    Cc: address@hidden
>    X-DCC--Metrics: grant.org 1074; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1
>
>    On Monday 03 January 2005 03:21 pm, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
>    > Nobody replied so I phoned RMS at CSAIL.  Richard says he checked in
>    > changes yesterday so clearly the server is up from his point of view
>    > although it is down as far as I can tell.  He suggested this address
>    > instead.  Perhaps the anonymous CVS instructions on the Savannah web
>    > pages are not quite right?  Please advise.
>    >
>    >          Peace
>    >                  --Devon
>    >   /~\
>    >   \ /    Health Care
>    >    X     not warfare
>    >   / \
>    >
>    >  Kerry won the popular vote
>    >  Dubya won the digital vote
>    >
>    > PS:  FTP is now up, CVS still down, to replicate the trouble do
>    > $ cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs login
>    >  and I also tried
>    > $ cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs login
>    >  but same timeout failure in both cases.
>
>    We do not use pserver for anoncvs, instead use the following:
>
>    export CVS_RSH="ssh"
>    cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
>
>    More information is available on:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs
>
>    --
>    Michael J. Flickinger
>
> Thanks for your quick reply!  I was just writing a followup ...
> After speaking to Stallman I tried a broader search of Savannah
> and found entirely different anonymous CVS instructions at
>
>       https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs
>
> which worked fine so you might want to update the bad information at
>
>       http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/emacs.html
> and
>       http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html
>
> although it will take a while to percolate to the 1290 Google hits
> I got for "address@hidden:cvsroot/emacs" just now.

Feel free to submit an email/bug report to the emacs project, pointing out the  
outdated cvs checkout documentation on their webpage.  Doing so would be 
useful to others in the future.

-- 
Michael J. Flickinger