[cvsnt] Re: cvs [server aborted] error on commit using WDSC

Glen Starrett grstarrett at cox.net
Wed Jul 6 19:46:47 BST 2005


Robert McCoy wrote:
> One thing that I and another developer narrowed down is that he was the one
> that shared this project on the CVS.  He has the ability to commit changes
> to the root level of this project.  However any other developer that tries
> gets this error.  To test this I then shared a test project on the CVS and
> he was unable to commit changes to the root directory but was able to commit
> changes to child directories.  This leads us to believe there is some sort
> of permission setting only allowing the creator to access the root objects.

Check the permissions on the directories, especially the module 
directory permissions.  You'll probably find the problem there -- you 
might need to set a umask or sticky bit on the group permissions 
(assuming you're on a *nix server -- Win servers would look to NTFS 
permissions).


-- 
Glen Starrett



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