Re: permissions for /tmp (was Permission denied when using CVS remotely)

[Larry Jones]

Kris Thielemans writes:
> 
> $ cvs -t update
> cvs update: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=parapet:/usr/local/cvsroot
>  -> Starting server: rsh parapetcvs server
> cannot create_adm_p /tmp/cvs-serv24426/PPhead
> Permission denied

The most likely cause of this problem is that $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/Emptydir
doesn't exist and the user running the command doesn't have sufficient
permission to create it.  For reasonably recent releases of CVS, doing a
``cvs init'' as a user that has write permission in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT
will create it (it's always a good idea to re-init your repository when
you install a new release of CVS; that creates any new administrative
files and is very careful to preserve the existing ones).  If you have
an old release of CVS you can create that directory by hand (although
you really ought to upgrade, instead).

-Larry Jones

All this was funny until she did the same thing to me. -- Calvin