SUMMARY: CVS Error upon login with pserver

From: Sherman, Gary (Gary.Sherman@workscape.com)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 08:17:15 EDT


Hello All,

I actually stumbled across the answer to my question. I found an excerpt from
Version Management with CVS at
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC182 that explained the
error. I simply upgraded to cvs 1.11.2 and the problem was resolved.

Thanks,

Gary

"If you seem to be connecting but get errors like:

        cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
        cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied

then you probably haven't specified `-f' in `inetd.conf'. (In releases prior
to CVS 1.11.1, this problem can be caused by your system setting the $HOME
environment variable for programs being run by inetd. In this case, you can
either have inetd run a shell script that unsets $HOME and then runs CVS, or
you can use env to run CVS with a pristine environment.)"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sherman, Gary
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 4:00 AM
> To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject: CVS Error upon login with pserver
>
> Hello Managers,
>
> As a follow-up to the CVS Tree migration I have been having an issue with
pserver. When a remote user attempts to login they get an error the cvs
cannot chdir to my personal home directory. See as follows:
>
> cvs -d :pserver:ddog@192.168.32.12:/home/cvs checkout files (in directory
C:\)
> cvs server: cannot open /home/garysherman/.cvsignore: Permission denied
> cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/home/garysherman): Permission denied
>
>
> Does anybody know why this is happening???
>
> I have searched up and down the cvs tree as well as the directories for cvs
files containing my name. I can not seam to find anything.
>
> Thanks in advanced,
>
> Gary
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Gary Sherman
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Workscape, Inc.
> (508) 861-3089
> gary.sherman@workscape.com
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