stanislas pinte writes:
>
> cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
> cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied
>
> is this a configuration problem? Is this that the cvs process would be
> running without knowing its CVSROOT?
You need to add a -f global option to the cvs command in inetd.conf. If
that doesn't fix the problem, you're probably running Linux where, for
some inexplicable reason, processes run by inetd have $HOME set. You'll
need to unset $HOME, either by using env to run cvs with a pristene
environment or by running a shell script that unsets $HOME and then runs
cvs.
-Larry Jones
Mr. Subtlety drives home another point. -- Calvin