Hi,
I'm having trouble checking code out of a CVS server using the
WinCVS.
Running from a terminal connected to the server, everything seems
okay: I can import, checkout, update, commit. Using the WinCVS, I
can
also login, import, but I can't checkout anything!
The CVS pserver run on a Slack
Hi,
I bit more info: the very same error happens when I try
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/works/CVS co multifretes
on the machine where the pserver is running. The is somway to disable
the pserver to chdir into /root?
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm h
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> The CVS pserver run on a Slackware 7; the pserver being started with
> the following command:
>
> /sbin/tcpserver -v -u0 -g0 0 2401 /usr/local/bin/cvs \
> --allow-root=/works/CVS pserver 2>&1 | /sbin/splogger cvs 3 &
Why are you using tcpserver inste
Larry Jones wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > Hum... I think that it isn't inheriting $HOME from tcpserver. I have
> > tried using other uid/gid (btw, I created an new user for this
> > purpose), and I received the following error message:
> >
> > setuid failed: Operation not permitt
Feng Sian writes:
>
> Bad news: it didn't worked. I created an user named devel, and in
> $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd I set the following line
>
> feng::devel
>
> and then I started tcpserver with -u -g ...
>
> , but it continue to complain with the following error message:
>
> setuid failed: O
Larry Jones wrote:
> What is $CVSROOT set to?
/works/CVS
# ls -lF /works
...
drwxrwxr-x 4 feng devel4096 Oct 3 15:24 CVS
...
> > I have switched back to run the process as root, but I have some questions:
> > - if tcpserver is invoked from root, and the program is ran as root (#
Feng Sian writes:
>
> > What is $CVSROOT set to?
>
> /works/CVS
I meant for the client -- it should start with :pserver:.
> The correct $HOME value should then be the users' home? I'm wondering if running
> a script to set the correct values for $HOME would work... But this solutin seems
> pre
