Re: CVS Checkout Fails But Module Exists

[Bryan Batten]

Hi Arthur,

As a followup, I tried the following without cd'ing away from the 
current directory:
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[6] bryan: blah=`cat CVS/Root`
[7] bryan: blot=`cat CVS/Repository`
[8] bryan: echo $blah
/usr/src/cvsroot
[9] bryan: echo $blot
bryan
[10] bryan: cvs -d $blah co -p ${blot}/FTPsites
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It worked like a charm, and the content of "FTPsites" scrolled down the 
screen.

I considered the possibility of a permission problem. First, I compared 
what I have now with that of a backup made in June. Other than showing 
the change in my default umask from 0022 to 0077, they are the same. 
Here are the current permissions:
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drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Aug 31  2011 /home/
drwx--x--x 134 bryan projects 8192 Aug 31 08:37 /home/bryan/
drwx--s--x 2 bryan users 4096 Aug 28 08:54 /home/bryan/CVS/
-rw------- 1 bryan users 640 Aug 28 08:54 /home/bryan/CVS/Entries
-rw------- 1 bryan users   6 Jun 23  2007 /home/bryan/CVS/Repository
-rw------- 1 bryan users  17 Jun 23  2007 /home/bryan/CVS/Root
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I tried changing the permissions on CVS/ to remove 'set ID on execute", 
and change those of Entries, Repository, and Root from 600 to 644. 
Checkout still fails with the same error message, so I backed out the 
permissions changes.

Let me know what else I should try to provide information on my 
problem, and thanks again.

On 08/29/13 19:22, Arthur Barrett wrote:
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