From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 12:57: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA4E14D5E for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:56:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07336; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:56:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:56:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: probably simple 'cvs' question... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > This is probably a simple question, but I'm tired of pulling my hair out. > > I keep the web pages for my server in a CVS repository, I do all my work on my > workstation however, so I have had my copy checkout'd remotely on my > workstation. IOW, I did: > > > cd > > mkdir work/web/server > > cd work/web/server > > cvs -d server:/usr/local/www/cvs checkout root > > where server is the hostname of my server, /usr/local/www/cvs is the home of > the repository, and root is a module that contains the root directory. This > worked great. Then, last weekend, I upgraded to 3.2-stable from May 15, > including the move to cvs 1.10. After this, I can no longer do any cvs > operations on the workstation because of "Permission denied" errors. They do > go away if I run cvs as root, but I shouldn't have to do that. For example: This is a simple permissions problem. Chown/chmod your CVS repository to something appropriate. I create a 'cvs' group and run my updates with a 002 umask. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message