Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: (XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:00:31 -0700 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Greg Jones wrote: > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to > CVS/Entries: Permission denied This is a symptom of something else having that file open. * What Antivirus software do you have? They sometimes take a few seconds to do their check, during which time the file is open. * Are you also running something else (like WinCVS), or any other package that likes to scan directories based on change notifications? (Sometimes you'll see this error if you have Windows explorer open at the right (wrong) directory..) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/