Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:59:09 +1100 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: cvsup, cvs & directory permissions.... Message-ID: <199911260159.MAA13867@lightning.itga.com.au>
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I maintain /usr/ncvs via cvsup. By default, the directories in /usr/ncvs are root.wheel, mode 755. This means you need to be root to do a "cvs get" because RCS needs to create lock files in the cvs repository. I often check out various bits of the -CURRENT source so I can compare with what's in /usr/src (which is -STABLE). I wanted to do this as me rather than root, for all the obvious reasons. So I chmod'd all the directories to 775, I was already in group wheel, and all was fine. Until the next cvsup which did a heap of SetAttrs operations and put the directories back to 775. :< Is there some simple way of getting around this? A quick peruse of the CVS man didn 't suggest any way of turning off the RCS locking. The cvsup man page didn't seem to have a flag to say "ignore directory modes". Do I just give up and do it as root? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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