Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20000921134650.24631.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:46:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: Bug Report: CVS often fails in scripts under Cygwin To: Josh Schulte , "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Josh Schulte wrote: > When I use CVS in scripts under Cygwin I often get "cvs: permission denied". > This happens in perl and shell scripts. Not every cvs command will fail. But > the ones that fail seem to consistently fail. For instance the following > script: > > #!/bin/sh > cvs edit build.txt > echo "test" > build.txt > cvs commit -m test build.txt > > gives the following output: > > cvs: permission denied > cvs: permission denied > > I ran this on Solaris to verify that I wasn't missing something, and of > course it worked. > > I've included my configuration information below. > > ********************************************************* > > Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics > Current System Time: Wed Sep 20 15:30:41 2000 > > WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195 > > Path: . > /usr/local/bin > /usr/local/bin > /bin > /c/development/Tools/common/bin > /c/WINNT/system32 > /c/WINNT > > SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32 > WinDir: C:\WINNT > > HOME = `/c/Documents and Settings/Josh_Schulte' > PWD = `/eq/dev' > USER = `josh_schulte' > Your HOME has spaces in it. I suggest that you: mkdir /home mount c:/Documents\ and\ Settings /home export HOME=/home/Josh_Schulte This may or may not solve your problem. Cheers, ===== --- --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com