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

[Mathieu Roy]

Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> said:

> 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.

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

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