Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Did the permissions on CVS lock files change?
Hi Therese, commits I attempted on May 8 and 9 (to the gnudos, gnutrition, leg and smalltalk repositories) failed with that sort of error: ... `/webcvs/leg/leg/,index.html,': Permission denied As I recall, there is some ACL or other magic allowing members of group www (like you) to commit to other repositories? Unfortunately I'm not able to find the information now. It is certainly plausible that such stuff was lost in the migration (not intentionally/knowingly). .. bob? ... Without something like that, I see no reason why th_g should have been able to commit to any project repository previously. The web directories are only writable to the group, as intended, and you are only in a few groups: vcs$ groups th_g th_g : svusers www trans-coord www-fr /var/lock/cvs/web/[package]. I see a lock directory owned by you there from earlier today: vcs$ ls -l /var/lock/cvs/web/leg .. drwxrwxrwx2 th_g svusers40 May 10 08:01 leg But I'm not sure if deleting it is a good idea, and probably wouldn't help anyway, so I didn't touch it. Sorry ... co-coordinator ... and cleaning lady :)
[Savannah-hackers-public] Did the permissions on CVS lock files change?
Hello, Some of you may know that spring cleaning is in progress in the package web pages. The idea is to get rid of obsolete features such as translation lists at the bottom of the page or old banners. I prepared patches, and since maintainers are very busy, I offered to apply them. So I committed to 23 different repositories without any problem between April 15 and May 6 (11:34:30 UTC). But the 4 commits I attempted on May 8 and 9 (to the gnudos, gnutrition, leg and smalltalk repositories) failed with that sort of error: /webcvs/leg/leg/index.html,v <-- index.html new revision: 1.21; previous revision: 1.20 cvs [commit aborted]: could not open lock file `/webcvs/leg/leg/,index.html,': Permission denied I now realize that the server has been migrating to a new host on May 5 and 6. Is there any possibility that permissions on those lock files have changed? According to CVSROOT/config, they are located in /var/lock/cvs/web/[package]. If the permissions did change, was it intended? Thanks in advance for any clue. Thérèse co-coordinator of the French translation team and cleaning lady