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 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:43:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Greg Jones cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: (XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ugh, top-posting, reformatted. On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Greg Jones wrote: > "Shankar Unni" wrote: . Thanks. > > 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..) > > Thanks, that makes sense. Do you know if Windows provides any way to > find out who the culprit is? Who has the file open? There is a 'handle' utility from SysInternals that can tell you which processes have handle to a particular file... > I have a Symantec anti-virus. I'm not sure if I know about every time > it's doing its thing. It might be, but it would be strange for it to > fail every time. > > I'm not running WinCVS, or anything else that knows about those > directories (in fact, CVS just created the directories). I don't have an > Explorer open to those directories. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/