Hi Larry,
I kinda figured there were a problem with file permissions. To that end, I uninstalled cvs 1.10 and downloaded and installed 1.11.1p. But this time, I ran the command "cvs init" as a normal user (once the user was added to "cvs" group) instead of root as suggested in HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CVS-RCS-HOWTO-3.html). This time, $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history was created by a user in the cvs group and it all works fine. I guess if root was also a group member of "cvs" it would all work fine. But I am not easy with that setup. I haven't seen many postings with a reference to this problem, so I figure there is another document where a different setup is explained. Otherwise, I'll feel pretty dumb ... :-( Thanks very much. The trouble has just started I guess :-) Regards, Jaime Larry Jones wrote: > > Dr Jaime V. Miro writes: > > > > According to HOWTO, import is executed as a normal user, whereas $CVROOT > > (under which the repository is installed) and files under have got > > root permissions only (o/g/u), which is the way it was installed. > > I can see why is giving me the permission error, but I did everything > > "by the book", or so I believe. I could manually change permissions to > > $CVSROOT and it might work, but I'd rather not. I am sure there is a > > reasonable explanation and solution. > > HOWTO is wrong or you misunderstood it. See the manual: > <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC13> > > Note that in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT, both the history file and the val-tags > file should be world writable. > > -Larry Jones > > Something COULD happen today. And if anything DOES, > by golly, I'm going to be ready for it! -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
