Alright, seems I can die, but Chris can't
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Chris Crawford wrote:
> the solution for the write permissions in CVS is for everyone to set the
> following variable in their '.cshrc'. be sure this variable is set
> before doing a 'cvs import' command.
>
> setenv CVSUMASK 000
>
> --chris
>
> Aaron Joseph Maschinot wrote:
>
> >hi:
> >
> >when i try to get a completely new copy of the cvs repository (e.g. by
> >typing "cvs co ."), some files copy over to my directory, but,
> >eventually, i get the following error message:
> >
> >cvs checkout: Updating exp/t20/edel/figs
> >cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for
> >`/home/blast/cvsroot/exp/t20/edel/figs'
> >(/home/blast/cvsroot/exp/t20/edel/figs/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> >cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> >`/home/blast/cvsroot/exp/t20/edel/figs'
> >cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> >
> >any ideas?
> >
> >aaron
> >
> >p.s. this is a problem that i know various other people have run into in
> >the past. if someone (i.e. probably chris) knows how to fix it, can you
> >send out an e-mail explaining in non-expert detail how to fix it?
> >something to do with removing lock files or whatnot...
> >
> >
>
>
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