Re: [Sandweb-devel] debian package broken

[Robert H. <rh...@cu...>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:55:00PM -0400, Micah Anderson wrote:
> Great, that worked... now I have some questions :)

Cool :)

> An error occurred. A call to the shell gave us this error code : 1 
> cvs checkout: warning: cannot write to history file
> /var/www/webwml/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for /var/www/webwml/web'
> (/var/www/webwml/web/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> /var/www/webwml/web'
> cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

www-data needs write access to /var/www/webwml/CVSROOT/history.
You may want to just make it writable to the CVS group.

> hmm, my system user has permissions to the repository, and can check
> out things locally... I tried adding www-data (the apache user) to the
> group that owns the repository directory, but I got the same error.

The problem with doing it with "local" is that www-data is the user
running CVS. Try to "su - www-data" and then do a CVS checkout. When
that works, SandWeb will be able to do it.


> I tried to set things to be SSH, and then entered my password when I checked
> out a module... nothing happened, it just sits there. I looked in
> /usr/share/sandweb/users/micah and I see the directory created for my
> repository, and I see a password file with a blank space in it, but
> nothing in the repository directory and the popup box doesn't give me
> an error or any messages, it still shows the password dialogue box.

That's weird. I prefer SSH because you can use your own user account and
not have to have all checkins appear to be from "www-data", but it
should work.. hmm.

If you turn on "debug" in /etc/sandweb/sandweb.cfg and retry this
operation, you can send the output of /var/log/sandweb.log to the 
list and we can help to troubleshoot the problem.
( NOTE !!!LOOK at the log BEFORE you send it! it will contain your password!!!) 



HTH,
Rob