Re: SourceForge Project Approved (fwd)

[Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>]

Oliver Kiddle <opk@u.genie.co.uk> writes:

> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > 
> > I mostly mean the web pages, though, because they could certainly be
> > made nicer (although that wouldn't require moving them to sourceforge,
> > of course); didn't someone lately offer to...
> 
> Yes, I recently offered to help with the web pages though what I had in
> mind was primarily ensuring that it remained up-to-date and leaving the
> current lynx friendly layout mostly as it is - I wasn't going to tart it
> up with lots or pretty graphics if that's what you mean by 'made nicer'.
> 
> Karsten created me an account but I can't get it to work. I can login to
> it if I use a username of 'opk' (instead of the 'pbk' which was the
> username Karsten quoted in his e-mail) but I can't do a 'co zsh' command
> - I get:
> Fatal error, aborting.
> opk@u.genie.co.uk: no such user
> 
> Does anyone who understands cvs have any idea as to what the cause of
> this is. My guess is that either:
> 1. my company 's firewall is getting in the way. Which ports does CVS
> use?
> 2. my CVS installation is wrong. It was done direct from a debian .deb
> package by a friend who has a Linux box on the company's main network.
> The RS/6000s I generally use for work are on a secure network so I can't
> try from them.
> 3. Karsten made a mistake while creating the account. Fairly possible
> seeing as he muddled my initials around and may have been in a rush - he
> said he was very busy.
> 
> Karsten: if you get a chance, can you check the account setup.
> 
> I'm going to get a modem soon so will have internet access at home again
> so hopefully that will solve a few problems. I can't actually access
> sourceforge from the company network due to the firewall though I do
> have an account (opk).
> 
> Oliver Kiddle
> 

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