>>but when I try to checkout a module it says: "setgid failed: operation 
>>not permitted". I have the modules owned by their respective user:group 
>>and have done a "chmod 2770 <module>". What have I missed?
>>
> 
> That indicates that you're not running CVS as root (from [x]inetd).  If
> you want CVS to change to the correct user/group for the user, you have
> to run it as root.  If you don't run it as root, you have to use the
> CVSROOT/passwd file to map all of the CVS users to the system user
> you're running CVS as.

I now run cvs as root, but now these errors pop up when i try to checkout:

cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied

Olav!


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