problem in cvs/CVSROOT/history:permission

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed May 10 14:44:00 GMT 2006


pramod g.s wrote:
> Sir,
>        i have problem in cvs please solve in detail:;
> problem is shown below:::
> 
> checkout -P CVSROOT
> cvs checkout: warning: cannot write to history file 
> /cvs/repos/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/repos/CVSROOT' 
> (/cvs/repos/CVSROOT/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/repos/CVSROOT'
> cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> 
> Command Aborted.


Sounds like a problem.  Please read and follow in detail the problem reporting
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