Re: Trouble in checking out from remote CVS server

[Larry Jones]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> The CVS pserver run on a Slackware 7; the pserver being started with 
> the following command:
> 
>   /sbin/tcpserver -v -u0 -g0 0 2401 /usr/local/bin/cvs \       
>      --allow-root=/works/CVS pserver 2>&1 | /sbin/splogger cvs 3 &

Why are you using tcpserver instead of inetd?

> The error message is as follows:
> 
>   cvs -z9 checkout -P multifretes (in directory E:\HOME\feng\projetos)
> 
>   cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
>   cvs checkout: in directory multifretes:
>   cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or 
>  
> directory
>   cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied

At the very least, you need a ``-f'' global option (just before the
--allow-root is a good place).  If that doesn't fix it, then CVS is
almost certainly inheriting $HOME from tcpserver which is in turn
inheriting it from your login shell -- you'll have to arrange to unset
it somewhere along the way.

-Larry Jones

What this games needs are negotiated settlements. -- Calvin