From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 23 20:10:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05278 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:10:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05273 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA06316; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA16540; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:10:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:10:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199901240410.UAA16540@vashon.polstra.com> To: zach@uffdaonline.net Subject: Re: cannot write /cvs/CVSROOT/val-tags Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.stable In-Reply-To: <19990123160814.A50957@znh.org> References: <199901240537.FAA03726@netrinsics.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19990123160814.A50957@znh.org>, Zach Heilig wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 05:37:38AM +0000, Michael Robinson wrote: > > 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 He's using remote cvs. That line has to be added to the val-tags file on the server, not on the user's machine. We ran into this once before. It could fairly be called a bug in CVS. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message