CVS install

[Sagar R. Shah]

I've been havaing the exact same problems as Jeff.

I have installed gdbm
I completely killed my cvs directory (rm -fr cvs;    mkdir cvs)

The version of cvs that i'm running is:
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10.8 (client/server)

which I think is the latest version (of course I could be completely wrong)

I've attached my cygcheck and a bzipped version of my strace output (I'm not
sure whether people would appreciate a 300K attachment)

If anyone can throw some light on what is happening....

Sagar

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Charles S. Wilson wrote:

> A couple of things: 
>   1) you have installed the gdbm package, right?
>   2) when you 'deleted all' [in /cvs, I assume], did you also do a 'rm
> .*' ?
>   2) send a 'cygcheck -s -r -v' output to the list
>   3) try 'strace cvs init' and see what that says...
> 
> The only time cvs tries to access (create) a file named ".#xxxxx" is
> when it's making a backup of "xxxxx".  So, I'm very confused that 'cvs
> init' is trying to backup a file called "1053" (or "1055" or "1063" --
> whatever) after you 'deleted all'.
> 
> BTW, the following has happened several times on this list: are you
> **SURE** you are running the cygwin version of cvs, and not a
> windows-ish version installed somewhere else? What does 'which cvs'
> show?  'cygcheck cvs.exe'?
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> 
> Jeff Jensen wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks Chuck, you are right, I just want to use the binaries.
> > 
> > I did this:
> >   export CVSROOT=/cvs
> >   cvs init
> > 
> > and received this error:
> > cvs [init aborted]: cannot open dbm file .#1053 for creation: Permission
> > denied
> > 
> > Deleting all, setting umask 770, and trying again gives
> > cvs [init aborted]: cannot open dbm file .#1055 for creation: Permission
> > denied
> > 
> > Setting CVSUMASK=770 just changed the filename to 1063.
> > 
> > What permission do I need to solve or set first??
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