Re: #cvs.lock error in Emptydir

[Danial Islam]

I had this problem before. I think you have to set write permissions
(e.g. chmod -R o+w *) on the directories you want to checkout.  They're
probably set to read-only now.

Danial.

Arcin Bozkurt wrote:

> This is what I get when doing an update:
>
> cvs server: Updating .
> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for
> `/opt/cvsroot/CVSROOT/Emptydir'
> (/opt/cvsroot/CVSROOT/Emptydir/#cvs.lock):
> Permission denied
> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/opt/cvsroot/CVSROOT/Emptydir'
> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
>
> What can I do to solve it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -arcin
>
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