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Date:      Sat, 3 Sep 1994 21:55:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, ache@freefall.cdrom.com, adam@freefall.cdrom.com, alm@freefall.cdrom.com, ats@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, csgr@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-other@freefall.cdrom.com, dyson@freefall.cdrom.com, gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, guido@freefall.cdrom.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg@freefall.cdrom.com, julian@freefall.cdrom.com, jvh@freefall.cdrom.com, karl@freefall.cdrom.com, martin@freefall.cdrom.com, nate@freefall.cdrom.com, paul@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, proven@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com, rich@freefall.cdrom.com, se@freefall.cdrom.com, sean@freefall.cdrom.com, sef@freefall.cdrom.com, smace@freefall.cdrom.com, sos@freefall.cdrom.com, torstenb@freefall.cdrom.com, wollman@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: /home/cvs/386BSD/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/xditview Makefile
Message-ID:  <199409040455.VAA01940@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199409040429.VAA08330@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Sep 3, 94 09:29:25 pm

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> 
> >Can we some how convert /home/cvs to READ ONLY cvs access??  We still
> >need to be able to do cvs co, but that is all.  I think a chmod -R a-r
> >on ~cvs/386BSD whould do the trick.
> 
>    CVS needs to be able to create lock files as it is checking things out. If
> you change the permissions to disallow write, you won't be able to check
> things out.

Okay, cd /home/cvs
find . -type f | xargs chmod a-r

That way you can still write to the directories, to create the locks, but
not to the files to do the commit.



-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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