[Rpm-metadata] CVS access problem

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 14:57 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I poll certain duke cvs repos on a regular basis. Since some time, 
> access to certain projects throws errors:
> 
> ~> cvs 
> -d :pserver:anonymous at devel.linux.duke.edu:/cvsroot/metadata/cvs-root 
> login
> Logging in 
> to :pserver:anonymous at devel.linux.duke.edu:2401/cvsroot/metadata/cvs-root
> CVS password: 
> 
> works fine, but
> 
> ~> cvs 
> -d :pserver:anonymous at devel.linux.duke.edu:/cvsroot/metadata/cvs-root 
> co generate
> cvs checkout: warning: cannot write to history 
> file /cvsroot/metadata/cvs-root/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for 
> `/cvsroot/metadata/cvs-root/generate' (/cvsroot/metadata/cvs-root/generate/#cvs.lock): 
> Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository 
> `/cvsroot/metadata/cvs-root/generate'
> cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> 
> fails.
> 
> The same problem applies also to epylog and urlgrabber. 
> 
> Any ideas, whats going wrong?
> 

I think it was my fault. I changed somethings in our anon-cvs
configuration b/c I updated the machine and it went a bit wonky.

thanks,
-sv