my fault, consider pamirian being patrick
there is no problem with my directories... I'm not sure but it seems to
be some kind of a permission problem when it's trying to access the
/root/.cvsignore file ... why root tho ? is it because cvs is running as
root ?
Michael Peck wrote:
> You have the allow-root set to /home/pamarian, but did a cvs init on
> /home/patrick. That's the problem.
>
> Patrick Amirian wrote:
>
>> Hi and thanks for reading,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a cvs repository,
>> this is how I'm doing it,
>>
>> create the directory /home/patrick/cvsroot
>> then I do
>> cvs -d /home/patrick/cvsroot init
>>
>> then I create my xinetd.conf file oh by the way I'm on RH 7.0
>>
>> service cvspserver
>> {
>> socket_type = stream
>> protocol = tcp
>> wait = no
>> user = root
>> passenv =
>> server = /usr/bin/cvs
>> server_args = --allow-root=/home/pamirian/cvsroot pserver
>> }
>>
>> and then I create a passwd file in /home/patrick/cvsroot/CVSROOT directory
>>
>> when I do
>>
>> cvs -d :pserver:patrick@matrix:/home/patrick/cvsroot login
>> it asks for the pass, I type the pass and it works great
>>
>> BUT,
>> when I do
>> cvs -d :pserver:patrick@matrix:/home/patrick/cvsroot import -m "first
>> test" test patrick start
>> it also works but at first it gives me this message,
>>
>> cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied.
>>
>> then when I do a
>> cvs -d :pserver:patrick@matrix:/home/patrick/cvsroot checkout test
>>
>> it gives me,
>> cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore : Permission denied
>> cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir (/root): Permission denied
>>
>> how can I fix this ?
>>
>> please don't point me at howtos, I already have 2 cvs books and few cvs
>> related documents but they don't cover this errors...
>>
>> thank you very much for you time, I really appreciate it.
>> -Patrick
>>
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