Re: AnonCVS problem

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 11:00, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>
> > Gary Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > I have a checkout of the anonymous CVS that I'm trying to update.  Lots of
> > > issues though:
> > >
> > > [gthomas@hermes ecos]$ cvs -q up -d -P
> > > cvs update: warning: cannot write to history file /cvs/ecos/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied
> > > P doc/ChangeLog
> > > RCS file: /cvs/ecos/ecos/doc/sgml/doclist,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.14
> > > retrieving revision 1.16
> > > Merging differences between 1.14 and 1.16 into doclist
> > > M doc/sgml/doclist
> > > cvs update: warning: cannot write to history file /cvs/ecos/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied
> > > cvs update: warning: cannot write to history file /cvs/ecos/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied
> > > P doc/sgml/makemakefile
> > > cvs update: warning: cannot write to history file /cvs/ecos/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied
> > >
> > > Any ideas what's up with this?
> >
> > I've just tried it and it works for me. On sourceware, the permissions look 
> > sensible:
> >
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 jlarmour ecos     92450589 Aug 26 16:41 history
> >
> > And I've just confirmed you are still in group ecos.
> >
> > So either it's already been fixed or there's other weirdness. Perhaps check 
> > your CVS/Root in those directories just in case (including e.g. ssh, not 
> > pserver)?
>
>
> No, I'm trying to use the pserver interface - that's what my customers 
> need.  I'm fine for my own SSH use.

It should be fixed now. It was a consequence of a different change on 
sourceware to remote the anoncvs user from project groups.

Jifl
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