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Re: Global option ignored


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: Global option ignored
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:08:18 -0500 (EST)

Fabian Cenedese writes:
> 
> I know that the -l was removed from recent versions but I never created or
> changed a .cvsrc file. Can I prevent this error except by upgrading the
> cvs tools?

Only by not using the global -n and -R flags.  They both imply -l but
the 1.12.1 client doesn't differentiate between an explicit -l and an
implied -l and sends an explicit -l to the server in either case.

> cvs server: cannot open /dev/null/.cvsignore: Not a directory
> 
> Do I need to create a home dir for the user cvs?

Any system user you're running as needs a home directory.

-Larry Jones

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
-- Hobbes




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