From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 08:17:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC6B37B401 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 08:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com (mailout09.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2EA43FAF for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 08:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Alexander.Farber@t-online.de) Received: from fwd06.aul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19ibeX-0007zP-04; Fri, 01 Aug 2003 17:17:09 +0200 Received: from pref.my.domain (Eeyz6yZvgejIeCe6V59GcceCrQHXHHD2ZHzvkkal9e74Jzi4NAGDoW@[80.135.151.206]) by fwd06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19ibeM-1SGiPY0; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:16:58 +0200 Received: from pref.my.domain (alex@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pref.my.domain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h71FDisI003292 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:13:45 GMT Received: (from alex@localhost) by pref.my.domain (8.12.8/8.12.9/Submit) id h71FDgpX017810 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:13:42 GMT Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:13:42 +0000 From: Alexander.Farber@t-online.de (Alexander Farber) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030801151342.GA14284@pref.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Url: X-Operating-System: OpenBSD 3.3 i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Seen: false X-ID: Eeyz6yZvgejIeCe6V59GcceCrQHXHHD2ZHzvkkal9e74Jzi4NAGDoW Subject: Checking out ports using CVS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 15:17:11 -0000 Hi, as user "alex:wheel" I try the following commands cd /usr sudo mkdir ports sudo chmod g+w ports cvs -z3 -d $CVSROOT co -rRELENG_5_1 -P ports | & tee ~/ports.txt Then I see the various ports sub-directories being checked out and they aren't empty. But at the very end I see the message: cvs server: Updating ports/x11-wm/xfce4-wm cvs server: Updating ports/x11-wm/xfwm4 cvs server: Updating ports/x11-wm/xwmm cvs server: Updating ports/x11-wm/xwmm/files cvs server: Updating ports/x11-wm/yawm cvs checkout: cannot remove ports: Permission denied and the /usr/ports/ is suddenly empty - newhope:usr {221} ll ports/ total 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 alex wheel 512 Aug 1 17:07 CVS Does anybody know, what am I doing wrong here? Regards Alex