[fpc-devel]erred CVS repository?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > I am not very knowledgable about CVS, but does the following indicate that
> > the tree has been locked so that an author can commit and should I try
> > back later, or is it a configuration error?
> > 
> > (Updating FPC 1.1)
> > 
> > cvs server: Updating fpc/install/demo/os2
> > cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository
> > `/FPC/CVS/fpc/install/demo/os2': Permission denied
> > cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> > `/FPC/CVS/fpc/install/demo/os2'
> > cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> > freebsd#
> 
> 
> It means that the permissions are wrong for that directory. However only
> root, and the owner of that directory (Tomas Hajny) can change those.
> 
> It only bothers anonymous users (the group permissions are ok), and happens
> when new dirs are created. 

I have fixed the permissions.

Michael.