Re: NewbieQ: What is wrong with this server config

[Larry Jones]

Roger Glover writes:
> 
> # cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvsroot login
> Logging in to :pserver:address@hidden:2401/home/cvsroot
> CVS password: 
> cvs login: failed to open /root/.cvspass for reading: No such file or
> directory
> cvs [login aborted]: fatal error: exiting

Why are you running CVS as root?  It's generally a very bad idea to run
*anything* as root unless you absolutely have to, and there's no good
reason for having to run CVS as root.

That's a bug in 1.11.1p1 -- just touch the file (or otherwise create an
empty file).

-Larry Jones

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