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Re: please help, cvs problem


From: Michael Peck
Subject: Re: please help, cvs problem
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:50:00 -0800

You have the allow-root set to /home/pamarian, but did a cvs init on
/home/patrick.  That's the problem.

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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