For those having problems with CVS & sf.net

[hoxu]

Ok, I've used this simple one bash line to checkout modules:

$ false; while [ $? -ne 0 ]; do sleep 30; cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous:@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/crossfire co crossfire; done

As you can see, it first sleeps for 30 seconds and then tries to checkout "crossfire" module (you could change this to "client", "maps" etc). If the command fails it will try again after 30 secs. When it succeeds it will exit.

Use at your own risk.