Re: [Savannah-hackers] Problem with SKS CVS access

[Nic Ferrier]

"Yaron Minsky" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been seeing problems with CVS access to Savannah.  Here's what
> happened when I tried an anonymous login:
> 
> dragonfly: tmp $ cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/sks
> login
> (Logging in to address@hidden)
> CVS password:
> cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server subversions.gnu.org: EOF
> dragonfly: tmp $
> 
> And here's the log sent to me by a user trying to access the repository:
> 
> pks# cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden/cvsroot/sks co sks
> cvs server: warning: cannot write to history file
> /cvsroot/sks/CVSROOT/history:
> Permission denied
> cvs server: Updating sks
> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvsroot/sks/sks'
> (/cvsroot/sks/sks/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/sks/sks'
> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> pks#
> 
> Any ideas?

I'm looking into it... it seems I forgot to make the history file
writable by anoncvs... so I've done that. I'm still getting a problem
so I'll let you know.


Nic