Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:14:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kenneth A. Bond" <fhb_1969@yahoo.ca> To: Phil Schulz <ph.schulz@gmx.de>, "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS CO Error Message-ID: <20040916161430.43395.qmail@web53407.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <414728C3.80305@gmx.de>
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Hello, This was in fact a server issue, which seemed specific to the US anoncvs server. I ran the same commands, however, I used the German anoncvs server, as seen below: setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs2.de.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs I was able to successfully synchronize my source with no errors. Thank you very much for your help. Much appreciated!! KB Phil Schulz <ph.schulz@gmx.de> wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Kenneth A. Bond wrote: > >> Hello, >> I am trying to update my source using CVS, as CVSup is not an option >> in my current environment. I am running FreeBSD 4.10. >> Below are the commands that I am entering in order to perform the >> update, but for some reason, I am getting the following error when >> attempting to update my source: >> >> lx1005# pwd >> /usr/src >> lx1005# setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs >> lx1005# cvs co -rRELENG_4_10 src >> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: >> Permission denied >> lx1005# whoami >> root [...] > > I'm thinking it must be something in your configuration, as I > can't replicate the problem here. I can, but only if I include the -rRELENG_4_10 part. (using csh) > # setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs > # cvs co -rRELENG_4_10 src/COPYRIGHT > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied > # cvs co src/COPYRIGHT > U src/COPYRIGHT If there were a file in the way, you'd see something like > # rm -rf src/ > # mkdir src > # touch src/COPYRIGHT > # cvs co src/COPYRIGHT > cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory > cvs [checkout aborted]: no repository The reason why I think this is a server issue is that there is no reference to /home/ncvs on my system besides the CVSROOT variable. Of course, I might be doing something wrong, but I'm completely lost on what it could be. > > Do you have "CVS_RSH=ssh" in your environment? > >From man cvs: > CVS_RSH > cvs uses the contents of this variable to determine the name of > the remote shell command to use when starting a cvs server. If > this variable is not set then `ssh' is used. I take is that it doesn't matter if you've got it set or not, as long as you want to use ssh. -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat@freebsd.org Computers are like Air Conditioners: They stop working properly if you open Windows. --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals
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