Re: cvs init "bug".

[Derek R. Price]

Greg Robinson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> cvsserver# cvs -d /data/cvsroot init
> cvs [init aborted]: cannot make directory /data/cvsroot: Operation not 
> applicable
>
> /data/cvsroot is an automount point which already exists.
>
> I can create it in a sub directory of /data/cvsroot, but I'd rather not.
>
> I can tell cvs is trying to make the directory, as I get the same error
> from mkdir, but could'nt cvs just ignore this error and move on?

If it can't make the directory, it won't have anywhere to put files.

Did you say /data/cvsroot was an "automount" point?  Doesn't that mean that the
automount daemon uses it for multiple disk mounts when needed?  You probably
shouldn't be putting anything directly in that directory.

Derek

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