Raf, Yes I was attempting to follow the instructions and was logged in as my user, not as root. And I was pulling the src from cvs (for the first time) and using the -r option for the stable version.
Theo, The user is a member of wsrc. That was part of the reason I was so confused at the time. (I can't verify with id at the moment, but I did check /etc/group to ensure the user was listed under wsrc.) I suspect that /usr is not owned by wsrc possibly, and that cvs was trying to write to /usr but I cannot confirm right now. When I am able to, I will run cvs again without the -q option and see if there is any extra detail I can include. Thanks, will reply again when I can run those. (As a side note, should doas be enabled by default? I don't recall any instruction in the faq on setting it up, but when I try to use it, it fails.) On Sep 9, 2016 1:20 AM, "Theo Buehler" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 12:54:05AM -0400, Stephen Trotter wrote: > > hi, > > i was attempting a fresh install of 6.0 and got to the part where you > pull > > the source tree and update the system to stable. > > i was stuck because the faq states you can (should) use a regular user > with > > cvs, and i kept getting a permission error from cvs when attempting to > run > > from /usr > > so, just wondering if anyone else was getting this, or if there is > > something that i missed. > > > > Is your user member of the group wsrc? Use id(1), for example. > > By default, /usr/src is owned by root:wsrc with permissions 0775. This > means that you need to be root or a member of group wsrc in order to > write to it. FAQ 5 'avoiding root' tells you how to add your user to > wsrc before running cvs: user mod -G wsrc youruser
