Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:28:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup and file permissions Message-ID: <199810160028.RAA02305@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:48:40 EDT." <19981015194840.A16439@netmonger.net>
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> This is something I've kind of been ignoring for a while, but now that > I'm tracking current/BETA on a couple more machines, I'd like to solve > it. I don't see anything obvious in the manpage. > > Basically, I maintain one copy of the CVS tree on our big server with > cvsup, and use remote CVS+ssh to check stuff out onto other machines. > Because CVS needs write access, I have set up a group for the users > that have permission to do this sort of thing. The problem is that cvsup > keeps taking the group permissions away when it updates the repository. Use the -R option to cvs when checking out. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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