[daip] Re: midnight job

[Eric Greisen]

Makoto Kishimoto writes:
 > Hi, this is Makoto Kishimoto at Univ of Edinburgh in UK.
 > 
 > I have installed aips 31DEC04 on my linux system and trying to establish
 > midnight job, but when trying to establish the connection with the server
 > by
 > 
 > cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at mnj.aoc.nrao.edu:/home/aipssrc/cvs login,
 > 
 > after hitting enter when asked password, then it doesn't respond for a few
 > minutes and says "timed out". And cvs doesn't make .cvspass file.
 > 
 > Do you have any idea about what's going on...?

The cvs server asks you for a password and you should respond by
hitting the Enter key (carriage return) - a blank password is what is
desired.  If you just wait, then it will eventually time out.

Eric Greisen