Justin Walker writes:
>
> On Jul 5, 2004, at 13:31, Rich Warren wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Now downloading package descriptions...
> > cvs -q -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink
> > checkout -d fink dists
> > can't create temporary directory /tmp/cvs-serv31747
> > Permission denied
> > ### execution of cvs failed, exit code 1
> > Failed: Downloading package descriptions from CVS failed.
>
> Hard to know for sure without seeing what is in /tmp.
I'm getting the same error. Here's what ls -al shows i my tmp:
> [suldrun:/tmp]
> # ls -al
> total 12
> drwxrwxrwt 12 root wheel 408 Jul 5 16:47 .
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Jun 18 11:46 ..
> -r--r--r-- 1 vhaag wheel 11 Jul 5 09:50 .X0-lock
> drwxrwxrwt 3 vhaag wheel 102 Jul 5 09:50 .X11-unix
> drwx------ 3 root wheel 102 Jul 5 09:43 0
> drwx------ 3 vhaag wheel 102 Jul 5 16:07 1224
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vhaag wheel 457 Jul 5 16:23 PocketMac.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vhaag wheel 273 Jul 5 09:06
> SoftwareUpdateCheck.pkgcatalog
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vhaag wheel 0 Jul 5 11:08 cs_cache_lock_1224
> drwxr-xr-x 2 vhaag wheel 68 Jul 5 11:03 hsperfdata_vhaag
> srwxrw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Jun 18 11:47 slp_ipc
> drwx------ 2 vhaag wheel 68 Jul 5 11:16 webdavcache.606.KZyEFO
[snip]
> These permissions match what I see on my system. I would not change
> anything here; the problem is likely related to what is in /tmp (and
> the user id of the running 'cvs' command).
I always 'su -' first and run fink as root. I have no problem
manually mkdir'ing a directory in /tmp...
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