Re: cvs [server aborted]: could not get working directory: Permission denied

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:23:00AM -0400, Mayfield.Kaloma wrote:
>Hi,
>       A have a CVS problem.  We are running CVS and keep getting this
>error when we try to checkout software (cvs [server aborted]: could not
>get working directory: Permission denied).  I have the directory WIDE
>open (777) and we still can't get the problem to go away.   Any
>suggestions???

Are the parent directories up to / readable by the CVS user?

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