Re: pserver doesn't work

[Peter Connolly]

Run the CVS pserver as the 'cvs' user and make sure that the /var/lib/cvsroot directory and all subdirectories/files are owned (chown) by the 'cvs' user.

And please don't spam all the other CVS mail lists.

On 7/29/07, somayeh afzali <address@hidden> wrote:

when i run pserver, this error is shown:

# cvs -d pserver:1234:address@hidden:/var/lib/cvsroot login
Logging in to pserver:address@hidden:2401/var/lib/cvsroot

# cvs -d pserver:address@hidden :/var/lib/cvsroot checkout Socketprograming/

cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/var/lib/cvsroot/CVSROOT' (/var/lib/cvsroot/CVSROOT/#cvs.history.lock): Permission denied
cvs checkout: failed to obtain history lock in repository `/var/lib/cvsroot'
cvs checkout: Updating Socketprograming
cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/var/lib/cvsroot/Socketprograming' (/var/lib/cvsroot/Socketprograming/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/var/lib/cvsroot/Socketprograming'
cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

please help me

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