From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Oct 23 12:57:38 1999 Subject: cvs error? or a cvs FAQ? From: Joao Cardoso To: octave-maintainers Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 18:57:33 +0100 Hi, After following the instructions in a previous mail from John Eaton, and sucessefuly checking out octave, I tried today a 'cvs update' that failed. My error? bash-2.02# pwd /src/CVS bash-2.02# ls -l total 6 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Oct 23 18:47 CVS drwxr-xr-x 18 root sys 2048 Oct 21 20:28 octave bash-2.02# cvs update ... ? octave/src/DOCSTRINGS ? octave/test/Makefile ? octave/test/octave.sum ? octave/test/octave.log cvs server: Updating . cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository `/cvs': Permission den ied cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs' cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up Can someone help? Joao -- Joao Cardoso | e-mail: jcardoso at inescn dot pt INESC, R. Jose Falcao 110 | tel: + 351 2 2094322 4050 Porto, Portugal | fax: + 351 2 2008487