[Dxspider-support] Update using CVS- How?

[Frank Johnson]

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 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
> 
>
WOW thanks Bob, I was just about to give up when it started downloading.
I must have tried 30 times before it worked !
Frank