> >In theory, I now have commit access. Indeed, I've got the SSH tunnel > >working fine and my CVS location of > >:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs > >seems to work fine to fetch - but I still can't commit :( > > what do you use ? mindterm ?
Putty for the SSH tunnel (partly due to Putty being written by a friend of mine :) and Eclipse as the SSH client. > >cvs server: failed to create lock directory for > >'/home/cvs/CVSROOT/Emptydir' (/home/cvs/CVSROOT/Emptydir/#cvs.lock): > >Permission denied > >cvs server: lock failed - giving up > >cvs [server aborted]: lock failed - giving up > > I have this error when using the cvs.exe from cygwin (1.11 > client/server) > rather than the 1.11 client. > I'm no expert in cvs but this is what I have noticed. did not > investigate. Ah, is it a 1.11 server? That could well be it - I believe there have been some problems using Eclipse against CVS 1.11. > >Is there anything I need to do on the CVS server to get permission to > >create that lock directory? > > You might want to create your ssh2 key to avoid pain (I > recently went into > this -painfully- because tunnelling was getting on my nerves) > I'm assuming > you are into ~/.ssh on your computer that you have a .ssh directory in > cvs.apache.org Done that bit already - that bit's no problem (well, after fiddling around with different names in order to get an SSH2 key working :) Thanks anyway though! Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
