Hi Bob,

If the CVS pserver for Vanilla is back up could you please
tell me the correct username, password and path to install
Vanilla on my box. Thanks!

Zach

--- Bob Tanner <basic at us.netrek.org> wrote:

> This post is way overdue. I apologize.
> 
> Back in Aug(!) we had some hardware problems with the cvs
> server. See
> 
>
http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/vanilla-devel/2004-August/000599.html
> 
> I had to delegate replacing the RAM to someone, which
> took some time. This is 
> all old news.
> 
> After replacing the RAM, the hard drive started to throw
> CRC errors, so there 
> was additional down time to get a new drive into the box
> and the data 
> migrated over.
> 
> This was followed probes against the cvs server looking
> for CAN-2004-0396. See
> 
>
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0396
> 
> This was middle of Sep, since I was offsite, I just
> applied a draconian ACL 
> (quick fix) to block pserver access to cvs until I had
> more time to look into 
> the problem.
> 
> I am off-contract now and have the time to re-address
> this issue. I 
> re-apologize for the down time and the slowness on
> getting things back 
> online.
> 
> Because vanilla shares cvs access with other projects, it
> will take a bit of 
> time to upgrade cvs to a secure version, as I will need
> to coordinate with 
> the other cvs-librarians to make sure the upgrade doesn't
> break anything.
> 
> I'll post here when things are ready for testing.
> 
> As an aside, I'll also be posting on cvs usage in
> vanilla/netrek development, 
> the problems with cvs, and potential solutions.
> 
> -- 
> Bob Tanner <basic at us.netrek.org>          
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