Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > "Yaron Minsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> >> I've been seeing problems with CVS access to Savannah. Here's what >> >> happened when I tried an anonymous login: >> >> >> >> dragonfly: tmp $ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/sks >> >> login >> >> (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> >> CVS password: >> >> cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server subversions.gnu.org: EOF >> >> dragonfly: tmp $ >> >> >> >> And here's the log sent to me by a user trying to access the repository: >> >> >> >> pks# cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/cvsroot/sks co sks >> >> cvs server: warning: cannot write to history file >> >> /cvsroot/sks/CVSROOT/history: >> >> Permission denied >> >> cvs server: Updating sks >> >> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvsroot/sks/sks' >> >> (/cvsroot/sks/sks/#cvs.lock): Permission denied >> >> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/sks/sks' >> >> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up >> >> pks# >> >> >> >> Any ideas? >> > >> > I'm looking into it... it seems I forgot to make the history file >> > writable by anoncvs... >> >> Was it a CVS you imported? >> >> When we import a CVS, we do not keep the CVSROOT/, this directory is >> usually way too specific to be kept without risking to break lot of >> things. >> > > Yeah... but this one included some stuff that he would need.
It is always safer to ask them to readd the stuff they need. > > I still can't login to this with anoncvs... I'm getting some strange >authentication errors. Can you have a look for me? Hum, I made it the easy way, I added a standard CVSROOT and move the original to CVSROOT.orig It works, however they'll have to check and probably readd their specific stuff. Regards, -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
