What chooses the cvsup server ?

Aleksandar Simic zen13038 at zen.co.uk
Fri Apr 23 02:17:41 PDT 2004


Hello,


the reason I ask is because when I issue 'make update' command in
/usr/src I get the following message:


[root@/usr/src]# make update
--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Running /usr/local/bin/cvsup
--------------------------------------------------------------
Parsing supfile "/usr/local/etc/cvsup/cvsup.stable"
Connecting to cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org
Connected to cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org
Rejected by server: Access limit exceeded; try again later
Will retry at 10:16:19
 

*note the server name*:  cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org


My /usr/local/etc/cvsup/cvsup.stable looks like this:

*default host=cvsup18.us.FreeBSD.org <-- note the server name
*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup       --------------------
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all


Now if I 'cd' to /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ and issue 'grep cvsup2 *' I
don't get anything back. 

So where is this cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org comming from ?



Thank you

Aleksandar 



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