Setting up CVS on RH8?

[Harold Hallikainen]

Will do. Thanks!

Harold

> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>> I'm trying to get CVS working on RH8. After reading a bunch of
>> documentation and tutorials, I can check out modules as root, but not as
>> any other user. I get something like cannot create lock file. I'm using
>> the default RH8 install. I think the problem has to do with file
>> permissions in the CVSROOT. I've created a group called cvs and made all
>> files and directories in the CVSROOT have cvs as the group. I notice
>> that
>> all the files seem to only have read permission for the owner and the
>> group. Any suggestions on what I need to do to make this work? Do I need
>> to create a user called cvs?
>
> The permissions are correct, as you're only supposed to check out or
> add files by using the cvscheckout and cvscheckin files.
>
> A full user's guide is included with the RPM.  Go to /usr/share/doc/cvs*
> and use ghostview to look at the "cvs.ps" file.  I HIGHLY recommend you
> print it out and read it.  Most, if not all, of your questions will be
> answered in there.
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