[Mailman-Developers] Alert to the cvs maintainer: another case of permission denial

Ken Manheimer klm@python.org
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:52:56 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Tomas Fasth wrote:

> I'm using :pserver:mailmancvs@cvs.python.org:/projects/cvsroot as root.
> Issuing a cvs update resulted in the following complaint:
> 
> >cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository
> `/projects/cvsroot/mailman/doc/IPC7': >Permission denied
> >cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/projects/cvsroot/mailman/doc/IPC7'
> >cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> 
> Do you need some assistance in hunting this problem down?

The CVS guy is snagged by meetings during the day today - but he should
be able to tackle this one soon.

ken manheimer
klm@python.org