Re: [Sandweb-users] No files visible in directories

[Rob H. <ro...@ro...>]

On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 07:07:40PM +0200, Meinolf Sander wrote:
> Hi,


Hello,

> when I create a new repository with sandweb, I only can see
> the directories in it.  For testing I extracted a current version
> of grub into /var/local/cvs (which is CVSROOT). I made a ?chown -R
> ms.ms /var/local/cvs/grub-0.93? (ms is the user I login with using
> sandweb), but I can't see any files in the directory structure.
> /docs, /grub, /lib tbc. are there, but with no files in it (of
> course they do exist on the hard disk). May there be a problem
> with rights or do I first have to upload the needed files from
> somewhere else?

SandWeb runs as the webserver user ( usually "www", "apache", 
"www-data" or "nobody" ), no matter which user you log into 
SandWeb as.


> Second question: If sandweb is running on a local machine, is that
> enough to use it for a VCS which is installed on a remote machine,
> or need it be installed there as well?


SandWeb can use a remote VCS ( it's just a client ). It does need to
have the client binary installed ( command-line "cvs", since that's
all we support right now ).

We support SSH connections to remote CVS repositories.


> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Meinolf 
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