From: John Allen (john.allen at domain oc2.com)
Date: Wed 23 Feb 2000 - 14:30:27 GMT
"John P. Looney" wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 01:54:44PM +0000, John Allen mentioned:
> > > Poxy complex-to-debug-wierd-problems software :)
> > What weird problems are you having?
>
> Any time anyone does a checkout/update, we get a message:
>
> cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
>
This is very strange, as your CVS repository appears to be
on /var/cvs.
Are you using direct access (ie. NFS), or pserver or what?
If you are using pserevr, then what is inetd running?
You need to run the server side cvs with a --allow-root for all
the repositories served from that server.
>
> During updates, we also get:
>
> Checking in README.oracle;
> /var/cvs/source/mail/imap/README.oracle,v <-- README.oracle
> new revision: 1.4; previous revision: 1.3
> done
> cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied
> cvs commit: saving log message in /tmp/cvsJVePPE
>
> And /tmp/cvsJVePPE doesn't contain anything.
>
> Kate
>
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