From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 23 14:36:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26335 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:36:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netrinsics.com ([210.74.180.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26292 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:36:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robinson@netrinsics.com) Received: (from robinson@localhost) by netrinsics.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id GAA04018; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:31:34 GMT (envelope-from robinson) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:31:34 GMT From: Michael Robinson Message-Id: <199901240631.GAA04018@netrinsics.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, robinson@netrinsics.com, zach@uffdaonline.net Subject: Re: cannot write /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags In-Reply-To: <19990123160814.A50957@znh.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zach Heilig wrote: >On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 05:37:38AM +0000, Michael Robinson wrote: >> Can someone explain why, when I use: cvs co -rRELENG_2_2 sys >> I get: >> cvs server: Updating sys > >> But when I use: cvs co -rRELENG_3 sys >> I get: >> cvs [server aborted]: cannot write /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied > >This can probably be fixed by typing: > >chmod +w /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags > >If that doesn't work, figure out a way to manually edit /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags >and append this line: > >RELENG_3 y I tried this, and it doesn't work. The RELENG_2_2 tag works without any /cvs/CVSROOT directory at all. The RELENG_3 tag fails with a message "server aborted". Thus I suspect some problem on the server side (which I may be causing myself, for all I know). -Michael Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message