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Tony Hoyle wrote: > David Somers wrote: >> Under build 2013, I just created a new repository... >> >> # cvs -d /var/lib/cvsnt/wombat init >> cvs init: Unable to register repository. >> cvs init: Your login does not have sufficient permissions to modify the >> cvs init: global server settings. >> cvs init: Repository /var/lib/cvsnt/wombat initialised >> >> Um... I'm running as root... so why do I have insufficient perms? Is this >> referring to changing the config data in /etc/cvsnt/PServer or something >> else? >> > Yes. It has to try to modify the config file on Unix. It needs write > access to that and a temporary file (/etc/cvsnt/PServer.new). > > It would also fail if for example the /etc/cvsnt directory didn't exist. > > Tony Um... I'm doing cvs init as "root", so it shouldn't have any problems with permissions to get at those files. Greetings, David