Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > "Yaron Minsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've been seeing problems with CVS access to Savannah. Here's what >> happened when I tried an anonymous login: >> >> dragonfly: tmp $ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sks >> login >> (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> CVS password: >> cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server subversions.gnu.org: EOF >> dragonfly: tmp $ >> >> And here's the log sent to me by a user trying to access the repository: >> >> pks# cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/cvsroot/sks co sks >> cvs server: warning: cannot write to history file >> /cvsroot/sks/CVSROOT/history: >> Permission denied >> cvs server: Updating sks >> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvsroot/sks/sks' >> (/cvsroot/sks/sks/#cvs.lock): Permission denied >> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/sks/sks' >> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up >> pks# >> >> Any ideas? > > I'm looking into it... it seems I forgot to make the history file > writable by anoncvs...
Was it a CVS you imported? When we import a CVS, we do not keep the CVSROOT/, this directory is usually way too specific to be kept without risking to break lot of things. Regards, -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
