Re: cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied

[Todd Denniston]

> Boris Landa wrote:
> 
> Hello Colleagues,
> 
> It's my second posting on the same issue.
> 
> I am relatively new to CVS and I would really appreciate if somebody could
> help me to understand the root cause of the problem.
> 
> I am using CVS version 1.11.17 for both client and server. My server is in
> Oregon. My client is in California. It runs on a PC under Windows XP using
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.13(0.122/4/2) 2005-03-01 11:01.
> 
> CVS works fine for me.
> 
> However, every time I do a check in I get an additional error message:
> 
> cvs server: cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied
<SNIP>
> I searched and have not found any directory with <nonexistant> name. I
> searched Internet and your archives. This message was not found.
> 

Because of cygwin, you get a different message than is normally found.
the canonical message is
"cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied"

If you or someone else feels up to it, the manual should probably be updated
to include
"cvs server: cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied" in all
the places you find the above message.

And here is some reading on the subject.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=%2Froot%2F.cvsignore+and+jones&submit=Search%21&idxname=info-cvs&max=20&result=normal&sort=score
Also in:
https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs_21.html#SEC188
a little ways down we see:
" cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied

    See Trouble making a connection to a CVS server. " ->
https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs_21.html#SEC189
apparently "then you probably haven't specified `-f' in `inetd.conf'."

Hope this helps.
> I would really appreciate if anybody knows where these messages come from
> and why.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Boris


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