Subj : Re: CVS commit CVSROOT/mo
To   : Frank Reid
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jan 24 2005 03:40 pm

  Re: Re: CVS commit CVSROOT/mo
  By: Frank Reid to Runemaster on Mon Jan 24 2005 05:00 pm

 >   Re: Re: CVS commit CVSROOT/mo
 >   By: Runemaster to Angus Mcleod on Mon Jan 24 2005 15:12:00
 > 
 >  >  >   amcleod@triphod:~$ cd /sbbs
 >  >  >   amcleod@triphod:/sbbs$ cvs co web
 >  >  >   cvs checkout: Updating web
 >  >  >   cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/cvsroot/sbbs/web
 >  >  > 	(/cvsroot/sbbs/web/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
 >  >  >   cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/sbbs
 >  >  >   cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
 >  >  >   amcleod@triphod:/sbbs$
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Still don't work here...
 >  >
 >  > Strange it works fine here ...
 >  >
 >  > -RM.
 >  >
 > 
 > Not working here, either:
 > 
 > cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/cvsroot/sbbs/web'
 > (/cvsroot/sbbs/web/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
 > cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/sbbs/web'
 > cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
 > 
 > Are you sure you're checking things out under anonymous and not under your
 > cvs user account?

Ah! That was the problem. The "web" sub-dir didn't have g+w access.

 > It looks like the cvs.lock itself is not owned by the
 > cvs user, and it can't be written/removed.

The cvs.lock file didn't actually exist (it couldn't be created by the
anonymous CVS account).

Should be fixed *now*. :-)

                                                  digital man

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