cvs installation problem

[fernfrancis]

hi
I am trying to install the cvs server for the first time on centos , the sercive xinetd seems to start. but when i try to connect to the server using this command
cvs -t -d server
it prompts for the password once i enter the password it gives me the error
cvs : Connection refused

secondly if i telnet to the port 2401 it gives
Trying 10....
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused


i checked the if the port is up by netstat-tulpn /netstat -na
didnt show me the port 2401

please help

[Rubberman]

Did you enable telnet and cvs? Look in /etc/xinetd.d for the files 'telnet' and 'cvs'. They contain something like this (from my /etc/xinetd.d/cvs file):

# default: off
# description: The CVS service can record the history of your source \
#              files. CVS stores all the versions of a file in a single \
#              file in a clever way that only stores the differences \
#              between versions.
service cvspserver
{
        disable                 = yes
        port                    = 2401
        socket_type             = stream
        protocol                = tcp
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        passenv                 = PATH
        server                  = /usr/bin/cvs
        env                     = HOME=/var/cvs
        server_args             = -f --allow-root=/var/cvs pserver
#       bind                    = 127.0.0.1
}

As you can see, it is disabled. Change the line "disable = yes", to "disable = no" to enable it. Ditto the telnet file.

[fernfrancis]

hi thanx for the reply i got cvs working the problem i am facing now is that i am unable to authenticate a user.
if i create the file passwd in the CVSROOT directory with the entry of the users then it authnticates but if i delete the file paswd from CVSROOT then it doesnt allow access to the user.
i have enables system authentication in the config file in CVSROOT but still , if the file passwd is not present it should do system authentication
kindly help