Re: [Cvs-syncmail] "Permission denied" for syncmail

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

Tom,
Read the SF Site Doc below. If that doesn't help, you'll need to open a
support request with the SF staff.

# F3. Enhancing Project CVS Services Using Scripts
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=772&group_id=1

SourceForge.net: Support Request
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001

On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 17:05, [TOM] wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I tried to get syncmail running on SF for our project phpcms. But I only 
> get a
> 
>      sh: /cvsroot/phpcms/CVSROOT/syncmail: Permission denied
> 
> 
> What I've done (I used Debian):
> 
> 1. I checkout CVSROOT to a local directory:
> 
> 2. I add the line "syncmail" to checkoutlist
> 
> 3. I add
> 
>    DEFAULT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/syncmail -u %{sVv} nz...@us...
> 
>    to loginfo
> 
> 4. I commit checkoutlist and loginfo
> 
> 5. Copy syncmail to my local CVSROOT directory
> 
> 6. $ chmod a+x ./syncmail
> 
> 7. $ cvs add ./syncmail
> 
> 8. $ cvs commit -m "Syncmail added" ./syncmail
> 
> I got a "cvs server: Rebuilding administrative database". But when I 
> commit an other file to test syncmail, I got the error "sh: 
> /cvsroot/phpcms/CVSROOT/syncmail: Permission denied"
> 
> I used the actual syncmail from CVS so I tested the new -m switch to use 
> an other mail host.
> 
> I don't know the user CVS use to execute the script. The files described 
> above are available at 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/phpcms/CVSROOT/.
> 
> Maybe somebody knows this problem and can give me a hint. I didn't find 
> anything in the mail archive.

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