Re: CVS error when using repositories that include directories

[Larry Jones]

Bernhard Valenti writes:
> 
> % cvs update
> cannot create_adm_p /tmp/cvs-serv61846/images
> Permission denied

This is the same problem that Guus Leeuw reported.  Looking at the
create_adm_p code and the permissions you both reported (which seem
reasonable), I'm 99% sure that the problem is that you don't have a
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/Emptydir directory in your repositories and the users
you're running as don't have permission to create it.  Simply doing
``cvs init'' (as a user who has permission to create stuff in CVSROOT)
will create it with appropriate permissions (along with updating other
stuff that might be missing or out of date in CVSROOT) without harming
the existing repository, or you can create it by hand.  If you create it
by hand, make it mode 777 (although you can probably get away with 555
if you use LockDir= in CVSROOT/config).

-Larry Jones

My dreams are getting way too literal. -- Calvin