I'm posting these to the list, because the same questions are
appearing on lists around the Net now.  Answers tend to be,
"Just do it without ssh" and "just wipe your tree, and try another
update," or "only wipe the files [several hundred or thousand]
that get the error response."  <grin>

   It just tried the following while using bash
(netbsd.stevens-tech.edu machine),

CVS_RSH=ssh
CVSROOT=anoncvs@netbsd.stevens-tech.edu:/cvsroot
export CVS_RSH CVSROOT
cvs -z5 checkout -PA src

and received the response,

"The authenticity of host 'netbsd.stevens-tech.edu (155.246.89.11)'
can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint [...the remainder of this line edited out by me...]
Are you sure you want to continue connecting? (yes/no)?"

Is that message a good thing?


Art

Art Lemasters wrote:
> Jan Schaumann wrote:
> 
>> Art Lemasters <slemas1@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  And how can this be done with ssh?  The following, per documentation
>>> instruction, is not working.
>>>
>>>    "* netbsd.stevens-tech.edu
>>>      Hoboken, NJ
>>>      Instructions: for ssh:      
>>> 'CVSROOT=anoncvs@netbsd.stevens-tech.edu:/cvsroot; CVS_RSH=ssh'."
>>
>>
>>
>> What do you mean by ``it is not working''?  What is the error you get?
>>
>> I know that the network connection to that mirror did have some severe
>> issues during the last week, but hopefully those are resolved by now (or
>> will be very soon).
> 
> 
> First, after some time, the server times out with
> "netbsd.stevens-tech.edu: Connection timed out."
> The next line is
> "cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
> if any)."
> 
>   BTW, I follow
> CVSROOT=anoncvs@netbsd.stevens-tech.edu:/cvsroot; CVS_RSH=ssh
> 
> with
> 
> cd /usr
> 
> then
> 
> cvs -z5 checkout -PA src
> 
>   But ah, I'm using bash (my aging human memory, you know)!  So
> I do,
> 
> CVS_RSH=ssh
> CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot
> export CVS_RSH CVSROOT
> cvs -z5 checkout -PA src
> 
> and that's a no-go, with the server response,
> 
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above
> messages if any)
> 
> 
> 
> Art
> 
> 
> 
>