Re: permission problem - cannot checkout

[Larry Jones]

Roni Abusch writes:
> 
> cvs checkout: Updating Proj1
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/home/cvsroot/Proj1'
> (/home/cvsroot/Proj1/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/cvsroot/Proj1'
> cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

See <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC13>.

On systems where the group ID of newly-created files and directories is
set by default to the primary group ID of the creating process, you can
usually use the set-group-id (SGID) bit on a directory (chmod g+s) to
indicate that the group ID of newly-created files and directories should
be taken from the parent directory instead.  That can make it easier to
get the permissions right by default.

-Larry Jones

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