[Savannah-hackers] Re: Problem with SKS CVS access

[Nic Ferrier]

Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:

> Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> said:
> 
> > "Yaron Minsky" <address@hidden> 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:address@hidden:/cvsroot/sks
> >> login
> >> (Logging in to address@hidden)
> >> 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:address@hidden/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.

I still can't login to this with anoncvs... I'm getting some strange
authentication errors. Can you have a look for me?


Nic