[Dxspider-support] Update using CVS- How?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:28:14PM +0000, Frank Johnson wrote:
> Dirk Koopman wrote:
> >As you have now done the login:
> >
> >cd /spider
> >cvs -z3 update -d
> >
> >You don't need to do the checkout if you already have a spider tree with
> >version > 1.48. It has all the CVS control stuff in it already.
> >
> >Dirk
> >
> >On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 17:26, Frank Johnson wrote:
> >
> >>Hi, I am trying unsuccessfully to update Spider from CVS (Linux) 
> >>following the instructions:
> >>
> >>[sysop at cluster sysop]$ cd /tmp
> >>[sysop at cluster tmp]$ cvs 
> >>-d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.DXSpider.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxspider login
> >>
> >>Logging in to 
> >>:pserver:anonymous at cvs.dxspider.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/dxspider
> >>CVS password: <I hit return>
> >>cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server cvs.DXSpider.sourceforge.net: EOF
> >>
> >>[sysop at cluster tmp]$ cvs -z3 
> >>-d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.DXSpider.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxspider co 
> >>spider
> >>cvs [checkout aborted]: recv() from server cvs.DXSpider.sourceforge.net: 
> >>EOF
> >>[sysop at cluster tmp]$
> >>
> >>
> >>Any ideas ?  What am I doing wrong ?
> >>
> >>Frank
> >>
> Thanks for that Dirk but it still doesn't work:
> 
> cvs [update aborted]:recv() from server cvs.dxspider.sourceforge.net:EOF
> 
> Is the error message.
> 

You are not doing anything wrong.  That means the server has reached
its limit of connections.  Keep trying--often I will just rerun 'cvs
update' repeatedly for a minute or so before I can get through.

Bob N7XY