From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 21:49:05 2004 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 BE1C916A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:49:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757DE43D1F for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:49:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:51:39 -0500 Message-ID: <414615CE.9060903@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:49:02 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenneth A. Bond" References: <20040913210226.54466.qmail@web53401.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040913210226.54466.qmail@web53401.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Sep 2004 21:51:40.0477 (UTC) FILETIME=[D9D5C6D0:01C499DB] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS CO Error 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: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:49:05 -0000 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 > >These commands show that I am in the /usr/src directory (which is where I >should be), and that I am the root user. >I was informed by another user that this was a server error, but I can't >seem to get around it no matter which anoncvs server I use. > >Please advise. >Thanks > > I'm thinking it must be something in your configuration, as I can't replicate the problem here. Do you have "CVS_RSH=ssh" in your environment? >Computers are like Air Conditioners: They stop working properly if you open Windows. > > Heh...if only people would build houses without them. But they like the look of Windows, methinks... Kevin Kinsey