Mailing List Archive: cvs access problems?

cvs access problems?

chrismc at deakin

Oct 10, 2000, 9:21 PM

Post #1 of 2 (1660 views)

G'day,
Just tried to do a cvs update and got the following error:

Sorry, you don't have read/write access to the history file /cvsroot/CVSROOT/history
Permission denied

Any ideas?
Christopher
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Re: cvs access problems? [ In reply to ]

gharris at flashcom

Oct 10, 2000, 9:24 PM

Post #2 of 2 (1553 views)

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 03:21:29PM +1100, C. L. McAvaney wrote:
> G'day,
> Just tried to do a cvs update and got the following error:
>
> Sorry, you don't have read/write access to the history file /cvsroot/CVSROOT/history
> Permission denied

What does the "CVS/Root" files say? If they mention "pow.zing.org",
they're pointing to the old CVS server (which may give that error), and
they need to be updated to point to "cvs.ethereal.com" - Gerald sent out
mail with a Perl command to update all the Root files in a source tree.