Re: please help, cvs problem

[Marinalva Dias Soares]

Please, try to give the permissions 755 to the directory root. 

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Patrick Amirian wrote:

> Hi and thanks for reading,
> 
> I'm trying to set up a cvs repository,
> this is how I'm doing it,
> 
> create the directory /home/patrick/cvsroot
> then I do
> cvs -d /home/patrick/cvsroot init
> 
> then I create my xinetd.conf file oh by the way I'm on RH 7.0
> 
> service cvspserver
> {
>        socket_type     = stream
>        protocol        = tcp
>        wait            = no
>        user            = root
>        passenv         =
>        server          = /usr/bin/cvs
>        server_args     = --allow-root=/home/pamirian/cvsroot pserver
> }
> 
> and then I create a passwd file in /home/patrick/cvsroot/CVSROOT directory
> 
> when I do
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/home/patrick/cvsroot login
> it asks for the pass, I type the pass and it works great
> 
> BUT,
> when I do
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/home/patrick/cvsroot import -m "first 
> test" test patrick start
> it also works but at first it gives me this message,
> 
> cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied.
> 
> then when I do a
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/home/patrick/cvsroot checkout test
> 
> it gives me,
> cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore : Permission denied
> cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir (/root): Permission denied
> 
> how can I fix this ?
> 
> please don't point me at howtos, I already have 2 cvs books and few cvs 
> related documents but they don't cover this errors...
> 
> thank you very much for you time, I really appreciate it.
> -Patrick
> 
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