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Re: cvsignore


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: cvsignore
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:39:47 -0400 (EDT)

root@mail.job.fr writes:
> 
> >Description:
>     When I launch as 'root' : cvs update sectors.inc, I have the following
> message :
> cvs update : can not open : /root/.cvsignore : Permission denied

By "launch", do you mean you're running CVS locally as root, or do you
mean that you're running client/server and the server is started as root
from inetd?  If it's the former, note that it's generally a bad idea to
run as root and CVS by default won't let you commit changes as root
unless it can figure out who you really are.  If it's the latter, you
need to add -f to the global options in your inetd.conf if it isn't
already there, and you probably need to arrange to unset the $HOME
environment variable that Linux inetd has a habit of setting
(incorrectly) for its subprocesses.  You can either have inetd run a
shell script that unsets $HOME and then runs CVS, or you can have inetd
run env to run CVS with a completely empty environment.  Or, you can
upgrade to the current release (preferably 1.11.1p1), which you can get
from www.cvshome.org, which is probably a good idea in any case.

-Larry Jones

>From now on, I'm devoting myself to the cultivation of
interpersonal relationships. -- Calvin



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