[client/server CVS with the working directory on a Samba share from the CVS server machine] That won't cause corruption, but lots of people have reported strange permission problems (probably due to
AFIAK the issue is not with where the working copy is stored, as long as you are the only one accessing the working copy. The issue is where the repository is stored/accessed from. Replacing the CVS
This discussion is interesting to me because of the way we are setting up our CVS and working directories to function. I hope the diagrams draw nice for everyone. 1. I have been told that the followi
-- Forwarded mail from address@hidden There's a book about applying CVS to configuration management. I don't remember the name, but "CVS" is in the title. I believe Karl Fogel is one of the authors.
Can someone explain why this "Real use:" is potentially bad. Because I was thinking of doing it this way myself in the near future (single cvs pserver m/c + NFS archive). cheers, Ian
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ although they do not sound like AFS because they usually say
It says "permission denied". But if i do the import of only files concerned (one by one), it's ok !! Any idea ? :-( It sounds like you have some kind of transient permission problem. Is your reposit
Well, your problem seems quite like mine. We have our repository mounted on nfs and there is one setGuid "cvs" binary placed. The whole repository and code is in one user permission only and the "cvs
Thanks Larry, excellent answers as usual. I will discuss further with the Tech ops folks ;) And the userid suggestion will work no matter what happens... the I complications in on
Hmmm. Having the repository on a network file system is a very bad idea -- we've had lots of reports of repository corruption caused by subtle bugs in network file systems. I strongly suggest moving
[ On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 11:32:25 (-0500), Larry Jones wrote: ] ENOTDIR will be the result if you try to chdir() to a regular file, for example, or if an intermediate directory in a pathname
Does your ssh key have a passphrase? If so, create a new key without a passphrase. Are either of your .ssh directories (client or server) or any of the files contained in them group- or world-readab
You should always CC the list, please. I don't know everything, and don't always respond. Thanks a lot for your help! Sorry I missed lot of relevant info in my post. My CVS server is Linux,(Slackwar
Pranab Panda (pkpanda) wrote: Hi I am a cvs newbee and the build system i inherited is repeatedly failing with following error cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot open nmstools/j2sdk/linux/1.5.0_07/demo/j
If the students can create the CVSROOT in their own area, give ACL controls for the area that allow only other members of their group in, and run the server against that area, then let the student ma
[Larry Jones - Tue at 05:42:19PM -0400] It's important to take backups frequently, and test the repository every time - and particularly before deleting old backups. As mentioned earlier here, I've m
Yes. Why is the sky blue? It's corrupted because something corrupted it. If your repository is on some kind of shared network file system, then bugs in the network file system code are almost certain
Reinstein, Shlomo writes [in very long lines]: Unix's philosophy of ownership and permissions doesn't match well with Windows' philosophy of ownership and permissions. Although Samba tries to do the
It sounds like you have some kind of transient permission problem. Is your repository on some kind of network file system? If so, that's a very bad idea and you will likely run into more screwy probl