Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.
Michel Launier wrote: > When attempting to login from WinCVS, I get an error message that the > repository '/xxx/yyy' does not exist (but it is actually acessible > localy). The log file (/var/log/cvspserver) does not show any problem. > # Repository definitions (0..n) > # > Repository0=/home/cvsrep > #Repository1=/usr/local/cvs-other > Your repository is specified as /home/cvsrep not /xxx/yyy. Check also that you're running the correct cvs binary and you're not using anything like a chroot (if you are adjust the definitions accordingly). Using the -t options on the command line increases tracing verbosity (3 -t is maximum at the moment) and may give some hints. > I have tried with and without lunching the cvslockd deamon. I have also > tried to configure the user using 'cvs passwd ...' but it seems that I > am not capable since I am not the administrator (though I am 'root' on > Linux). > It's too much of a security risk to run the server side scripts as root, so it's blocked from doing many actions (this is true also on 'standard' cvs). You have to make your user a member of the cvsadmin group (specified in src/options.h). Tony -- Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org> Key ID: 104D/4F4B6917 2003-09-13 Fingerprint: 063C AFB4 3026 F724 0AA2 02B8 E547 470E 4F4B 6917