Re: CVS problems

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

It looks like you have your repository in root's home dir (/root) which
other users can not access.  I put mine in /src or /cvsroot.


> A bit of a CVS problem:
> 
> [12:02am] hamish:~/tmp> setenv CVSROOT :pserver:hamish@localhost:/path
> [12:02am] hamish@yodeller:~/tmp> cvs login
> (Logging in to hamish@localhost)
> CVS password: 
> [12:02am] hamish@yodeller:~/tmp> cvs checkout test
> cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
> cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied
> [12:02am] hamish@yodeller:~/tmp> 
> 
> 
> I get similar messages on WinCVS trying to list modules. :-(
> 
> 1.9.29 from slink.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thanks,
> Hamish
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George Bonser

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