>Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fixme
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: CVS error: not as 'root'
>From: "John Blanco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:12:41 -0600
>X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/18689
>
> I'm going nuts! I'm running CVS under BeOS. I can
everything, but
>hwne I try to commit files, I get this message
>
> $ cvs commit
> cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'
>
> Any ideas? I've tried everything....checked permissions and
so on. I
>need to at least know what the error means...
>
CVS won't allow you to commit as root as a default. I think that this
is because many administrators may have the root password and you
wouldn't be able tell which one of them made a certain commit. Just
commit as yourself instead of as root.
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Stephen Rasku E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Software Engineer Phone: (604) 872-6676
TGI Technologies Web: http://www.tgivan.com/
