--- Reagan Penner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I am new to the cvs edit command so please > bear with me. From > what I understand more than one user should be able > to tag the same > file for editing. > > My problem is that when user X applies cvs edit > against a file, all > files within the current directory become locked to > cvs edit. Meaning > that if X has file1 tagged for editing then user Y > can't tag any files > in file1's directory for editing. > > Here is a copy of the cvs command error output: > cvs edit: cannot write > /blah/projX/cvs/package_path/CVS/fileattr: > Permission denied > > this only happens if someone other than the original > issuer of the cvs > edit command tries to apply cvs edit to another file > in the same > directory.
This looks like a permissions problem rather than a CVS problem. My guess is that user X has a restrictive umask setting. This is fine for things user X doesn't want to share, but by definition, stuff in CVS is shared. To solve this, have user X set the environment variable CVSUMASK to 007. Hope this helps, Noel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
