Re: GNU.org is down

[V. L. Simpson]

David Steuber <david.steuber@verizon.net> writes:

> When CVS is fully restored, will I have to use SSH in the future?
> I've been doing the following:
> 
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs

I just did a quick check w/o CVS_RSH set and received a hung
connection.  With CVS_RSH=ssh everything worked fine.  So yes it
appears ssh is now required for anonymous downloads.

Note--You only need the client installed, a running sshd is not necessary.

HTH,
vls