Re: OT: CVS [WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)] SOLVED

[Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:43 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:30 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system.
> >> > netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system.
> >> > netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system.
> >> > netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I assume these are kernel options, but without knowing specific symbol
> >> > names, I'm not sure how to compile them into the kernel.  Can anyone
> >> > give me any advice on this situation?
> >>
> >> I think if you don't have support for those protocols the chances of a
> >> program using them is probably zero. :) FWIW i get the exact same
> >> messages. I don't think it is meaningful.
> >>
> >> I use a similar command (omitting all the unix sockets stuff): netstat
> >> -lnp --inet
> >>
> >> With regard to your original problem, try to edit the cvsd.conf and
> >> specify an actual IP address to listen on (instead of 0.0.0.0 or * or
> >> however it is defined there) and see if that helps.
> >>
> >
> > Now I've got the server running, but I can't connect to it:
> >
> > michael@camille ~ $ cvs login
> > Logging in to :pserver:michael@carter.espersunited.com:2401/root
> > CVS password:
> > cvs [login aborted]: connect to
> > carter.espersunited.com(192.168.1.2):2401 failed: Connection refused
> 
> Hmm, does cvsd use inetd? maybe it needs to be added to allowed port
> list or something like that.
> 
This line in the config file:

Listen 127.0.0.1  2401

needed to be changed to this:
Listen 192.168.1.2 2401

And now it works