On 2006-1108 00:35:36, Steve Murray wrote: > Mario Frasca wrote: > > are you using cvs from the command line or -say- from emacs? > > Thanks for responding - I'm attempting to checkout just by invoking cvs > from a terminal session. nice, this makes things easier... > session seems to be suspended at that point. When I request ... > > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/elks login > > ... I get the response of ... > > Logging in to > :pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:2401/cvsroot/elks > CVS password: > > ... almost immediately, but then when I hit the return key, I get nothing > for about 30 seconds, then ... > > cvs [login aborted]: connect to > elks.cvs.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.85):2401 failed: Connection timed out strange... tried exactly the same from my computer at work and a mac at home (copy & paste from your message to an xterm) and both log in then get the whole tree without problems... the IP address you see matches what I see here... I would think about a lower level network problem... have you got an account really somewhere else? Mario -- [quello che cito] non esprime in alcun modo il mio pensiero personale Papa Ratzinger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html