Dr Jaime V. Miro writes: > > According to HOWTO, import is executed as a normal user, whereas $CVROOT > (under which the repository is installed) and files under have got > root permissions only (o/g/u), which is the way it was installed. > I can see why is giving me the permission error, but I did everything > "by the book", or so I believe. I could manually change permissions to > $CVSROOT and it might work, but I'd rather not. I am sure there is a > reasonable explanation and solution.
HOWTO is wrong or you misunderstood it. See the manual: <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC13> Note that in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT, both the history file and the val-tags file should be world writable. -Larry Jones Something COULD happen today. And if anything DOES, by golly, I'm going to be ready for it! -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs