On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:30:35AM -0600, Ruibiao Qiu wrote:
> Interestingly, this makes the difference.  "cvs -d $CVSROOT
> update -d -P" works, but "cvs update -d -P" dosent (connection
> refused).  This is not what `man cvs` suggests.  Anybody knows
> why?

That's what I suspected.

You're now using pserver to update a tree created by a different
method.

cat CVS/Root where you are right now.

Change that to be the pserver call, and you shouldn't have to
specify -d on the cvs command line.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net