Also I should mention that I was able to get the commands to work by going into /usr/src and running from there, but did find afterward that a new copy of src was put into the folder ( i.e. /usr/src/src/ ) so I did end up moving everything up a directory. I am not sure, will this affect cvs in the future, or should I be ok as long as I run it with the full command to pull the src, from /usr (oppossed to running the update command first)?
On Sep 9, 2016 8:04 AM, "Stephen Trotter" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
