Re: cvs locally - My Solution

2002-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're still exploring this as if the repository needs to be owned by > root, which it does not. There is no reason to fight against the > no-root restriction in cvs. Just don't use the tool as root. The OP asked how to access cvs as root without er

Re: cvs locally - My Solution

2002-03-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 08:24, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Seems like quite a lot of huffing and puffing. Although, I'm > certainly not an expert on cvs. wouldn't this have done the job? > > First this assumes sudo is installed and your user is allowed to > sudo all. > ===

Re: cvs locally - My Solution

2002-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Patrick Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK so after browsing through the book Gordon suggested, I got an idea. So I > tested it out and it worked within the environment that I need it to. Here > is the way I did it: > > user="pnelson" > cvslocal="/usr/local/cvsrep" > > mkdir .bon > chown $

RE: cvs locally - My Solution

2002-03-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 23:45, Patrick Nelson wrote: ... > OK so after browsing through the book Gordon suggested, I got an idea. So I > tested it out and it worked within the environment that I need it to. Here > is the way I did it: > > user="pnelson" > cvslocal="/usr/local/cvsrep" I guess tha

RE: cvs locally - My Solution

2002-03-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
Patrick Nelson wrote: - Setting the repository as a normal user (i.e. my username) and the group name as cvs (yep has the proper people there, include my username) did not change any of the errors. The book seem good so I will read through it. However, a quick glance into ver