>From my observations, CVS is looking in the home directory for .cvsignore.
When running as a pserver it still looks in the home directory. The inetd
daemon is running under root so CVS appears to look in root's home directory
(/root) for the .cvsignore file.
When I set up CVS on RH6.2 I did "chmod o+r /root" to give cvs users read
access to /root so that when cvs ran it can see that .cvsignore does not
exist in /root. This is not exactly secure since everyone can read root.
I've heard that inetd incorrectly sets the home directory. It was reported
as fixed in RH6.2 but the problem still occurs.
This was the only way I could get it to work. If anyone has a better
solution, I would be glad to hear it.
Regards
John Scott
IS Middleware Services
-----Original Message-----
From: Ashok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 July 2000 11:33
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: permission problem(.cvsignore)
Dear All,
I have set up a CVS server on Red Hat linux6.2.
1.After logging from the remote client(windows NT) i do a import of my test
files.It says as follows
C:\mydir>cvs import -m "initial import" myproj1 ashok start
CVS server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
N myproj1/confdefs.h
N myproj1/getopt.c
No conflicts created by this import
It creates the directory and the files in the repository
2. When i do a checkout it says
C:\mydir\new>cvs co myproj
CVS server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
CVS [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied
What is the reason for this?what permission do i have to set?
Thanks in advance for all the answers.
Regards ,
Ashok Nagaraj
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