Non Network cvsup?

[N. Raghavendra]

At 2005-04-19T23:12:33-04:00, Daniel Bass wrote:

> So my IT department won't open port 5999 so I can't access the
> servers with cvsup.  Is there some manual method to synchronize my
> installation?

If your firewall does not block SSH connections, and if you have a
shell account on a machine outside your firewall, you can use CVSup
with SSH port forwarding.  There have been several threads in the list
on this topic, which can be found by searching the archives.  See,
e.g.,

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2003-March/000213.html

Raghavendra.

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