Re: debian: cvs server giving permission denied

[Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>]

Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@bigpond.com> writes:

> I've got a CVS server on a PowerMac running Debian GNU Linux
> (stable).  I can checkout from the repository but I can not do
> simple operations like status or update.  This only happens when
> performing these operations on directories with subdirectories
> (excluding CVS).  Is this a known problem and how do I solve it.

Sanity check:  does the user the server runs as have write access to
all the directories in the repository?

-Doug