AnonCVS problem

AnonCVS problem

[Gary Thomas]

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?

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates

Re: AnonCVS problem

[Jonathan Larmour]

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)?

Jifl
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Re: AnonCVS problem

[Gary Thomas]

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.

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates

Re: AnonCVS problem

[Jonathan Larmour]

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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