Lafon, Thomas A J writes:
> 
> I have been trying to use CVS on my UNIX/SUN machine but have
> encountered the following error message when entering the "cvs init"
> command:
> 
> cvs [init aborted]: cannot create temporary file .#12603: Permission denied
> 
> Could you please tell me where it is trying to create this temporary
> file so that I can ask for the writing permissions in this particular
> folder?

Probably the CVSROOT subdirectory inside the repository you're
initializing.  Run the command with the global -t option if you need
more information about what's going on.
-- 
Larry Jones

Santa's gonna skip this block for years. -- Calvin


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