[Savannah-help-public] sending email on CVS commits

[Eric Blossom]

Hi,

I'm trying to arrange for email to be sent on commits to CVS on
savannah.  I tried the stuff below, which I thought was right, but obviously
something is amiss.

Can you please advise?

Thanks,
Eric, GNU Radio maintainer


# checkout the CVSROOT directory (worked OK, got empty dir)

address@hidden ~]$ cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/sources/gnuradio co CVSROOT

# create new files...

address@hidden CVSROOT]$ cvs add commit-notification.py loginfo 

address@hidden CVSROOT]$ cvs -q commit -m 'initial checkin'
cvs commit: ERROR: cannot write file 
/sources/gnuradio/CVSROOT/commit-notification.py,v: Permission denied
cvs commit: ERROR: cannot write file /sources/gnuradio/CVSROOT/loginfo,v: 
Permission denied
cvs commit: Rebuilding administrative file database
cvs [commit aborted]: cannot create temporary file .#10592: Permission denied
address@hidden CVSROOT]$