Larry Jones wrote: > > One more addition: if I run 'cvs --allow-root=/home/ncvs' instead of > > 'cvs --allow-root=/home/ncvs' I see it still tries to create lock > > in the repository and fails due to 'Permission denied'. > [...] > > instead of 'cvs -R --allow-root=/home/ncvs'. > > And your point is? You can use LockDir= in CVSROOT/config to put the > lock files somewhere other than in the repository.
Yes, when it's my repository. And no, when it's just read-only mirror. > I have no idea what > -R does since that's not in standard CVS. Well, you are right, I need to contact FreeBSD team for that. > You can also specify the > global -n option to CVS in most cases to avoid creating lock files at > all. That doesn't work at server side (server says 'there is no version here; ...') and it doesn't change anything at client side (still says 'Protocol error...') when using cvs -R. So, thank you, Larry, for your cooperation. Now I see this is FreeBSD-specific problem. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
