RE: can not lock a branch.

[Li, James]

BTW, How to change cvs default time zone from UTC/GMT to my local PST.

Thanks

-James

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Li, James 
Sent:   Monday, March 05, 2001 3:34 PM
To:     'address@hidden'
Cc:     'address@hidden'; Li, James
Subject:        can not lock a branch.

Hi,

It will appreciate very much if you can help me this. I can not lock a branch from using cvs admin -l, Here is commands and error messages : I do not understant why cvs server cannot modify RCS file even I change the permition from 755 to 777 in /export/cvs/build?

> cat /etc/group
...
cvsadmin::501:cvs,twells,mboyd,alin,jli,build,test
...
> whoami
build
> pwd
/home/build/work
>cvs co -r TEST_BRANCH build
>cvs adm -lTEST_BRANCH build
...
cvs server: cannot modify RCS file for `Errorcheck.sh'
RCS file: /export/cvs/build/branch.build,v
cvs server: /export/cvs/build/branch.build,v: branch TEST_BRANCH absent
cvs server: cannot modify RCS file for `branch.build'
RCS file: /export/cvs/build/build.log,v
cvs server: /export/cvs/build/build.log,v: branch TEST_BRANCH absent
cvs server: cannot modify RCS file for `build.log'
RCS file: /export/cvs/build/build.sh,v
cvs server: /export/cvs/build/build.sh,v: branch TEST_BRANCH absent
cvs server: cannot modify RCS file for `build.sh'
RCS file: /export/cvs/build/buildbytag.sh,v
cvs server: /export/cvs/build/buildbytag.sh,v: branch TEST_BRANCH absent
cvs server: cannot modify RCS file for `buildbytag.sh'
...
 > ls -l /export/cvs/
total 16
drwxrwxr-x   5 cvs      cvsusers    1536 Mar  5 15:24 build
drwxrwxr-x   3 cvs      cvsusers    1536 Mar  5 15:15 CVSROOT
drwxrwxr-x   3 cvs      cvsusers     512 Nov  3 10:52 docs
drwxrwxr-x  16 cvs      cvsusers     512 Mar  5 15:21 prismedia
 > ls -l /export/cvs/build/
total 602
drwxrwxr-x   2 alin     users        512 Nov 27 14:18 Attic
-r-xr-xr-x   1 alin     users       1930 Feb 16 11:15 branch.build,v
-rwxrwxrwx   1 build    users     159932 Feb 14 18:23 build.log,v
-rwxrwxrwx   1 build    users       4040 Feb 14 18:23 build.sh,v
-rwxrwxrwx   1 build    users       1268 Feb 28 14:13 buildbytag.sh,v
-rwxrwxrwx   1 build    users        937 Feb 14 18:23 buildtag,v
-rwxrwxrwx   1 build    users        635 Feb 28 15:04 changemod.sh,v
-rwxrwxrwx   1 build    users       1023 Feb 14 18:23 cobytag.sh,v
-rwxrwxrwx   1 build    users       9087 Feb 28 14:32 current.build,v
drwxrwxrwx   2 build    users        512 Jan  3 16:32 CVS
-rwxrwxrwx   1 build    users        346 Feb 20 10:11 cvsaccess.conf,