Well, /dev/tty on my machine is world-writeable.. I assume you meant to
check my machine and not cvs.poe.sourceforge.net.
Anyway, like I said I've seen this problem before w/ anon. cvs on other
sourceforge projects. It's not a problem on my end.
thanks :)
-t.c.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:52:55PM -0700, Michael Wilkinson wrote:
> (I'm new to the POE list, but I work with CVS on a daily basis)
>
> You might want to check the permissons of the device nodes on the machine
> you are trying to checkout from (mainly /dev/tty), as CVS seems to do some
> some checks against them. If you do not have write permission on /dev/tty,
> than cvs checkout will fail with this error.
>
> Other than that, you might want to doublecheck your CVSROOT string again.
>
> -MW
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tavin Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:51 PM
> Subject: cannot check poe w/ anon. cvs
>
>
> > hi,
> >
> > tried to check out poe from sourceforge w/ anonymous cvs. it won't work.
> > here's the error message:
> >
> > setuid failed: Invalid argument
> > cvs [checkout aborted]: authorization failed: server
> cvs.poe.sourceforge.net rejected access
> >
> > I've seen this happen w/ anon. cvs on another sourceforge project also.
> > Any idea if this can be fixed?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > --
> >
> > // Tavin Cole
