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X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:58:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Permission denied when checking out /cvs/cygwin/htdocs
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> ping?
>
> > I was just attempting to check the Cygwin web page(s)...But I'm getting
> > this
> >
> > cvs server: Updating .
> > cvs server: Updating CVSROOT
> > cvs server: Updating htdocs
> > cvs server: Updating htdocs/acronyms
> > cvs server: failed to create lock directory for
> > `/cvs/cygwin/htdocs/acronyms' (/cvs/cygwin/htdocs/acronyms/#cvs.lock):
> > Permission denied
> > cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> > `/cvs/cygwin/htdocs/acronyms'
> > cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
>
> Elfyn

My guess is the directory permissions are missing the sticky bit.
Someone with shell root access will have to fix it (alternatively, I
could, if given shell access temporarily).

Elfyn, do you have trouble checking out htdocs/goldstars?  If not, this
would be very strange, as I used "cvs add" to add both directories...
Maybe something's wrong with the CVSROOT scripts (or the Emptydir, I'm not
quite sure how cvs does it).
	Igor
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