[Savannah-hackers] Re: MORE.STUFF and Calc

[Jaime E. Villate]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:32:53AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> More importantly, it sounds like I don't have write access to the
> files in software/calc subdirectory of the webcvs tree: when I try to
> check in the change, it says:
> 
>   /webcvs//software/calc/calc.html,v  <--  calc.html
>   new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2
>   cvs [server aborted]: could not open lock file 
> `/webcvs//software/calc/,calc.html,': Permission denied
> 
> This is via CVS/SSH, the command I typed was:
> 
>   cvs -z3 -d address@hidden:/webcvs/ ci calc/calc.html
> 
> A similar command to check-out the file did work.
> 
> Could someone please tell what am I doing wrong?

You do have write access to webcvs/software/calc. But you do not have write
access to webcvs/. The cvs command you used is trying to create a lock file in
webcvs/ before it uploads webcvs/software/calc/calc.html but you can't create
a lock there. Try the following instead:
   cd calc   # where calc is the directory you already checked out
   cvs -z3 ci calc.html

(or if you prefer, cvs -z3 -d address@hidden:/webcvs/software/calc
ci calc.html, but there is no need for the -d option because the same
information is saved in calc/CVS/)

Cheers,
Jaime