write access

write access

[Luc Teirlinck]

I am trying to check in some changes to kill-whole-line.

I registered an SSH Shared key.

I managed to do:

cvs -z3 -d teirllm@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co .

without problems, but while trying to commit I got:

cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository

I waited an hour because I believe that was necessary to make sure the
cron job had ran.

I put:

export CVS_RSH=ssh

in my .bashrc.

Eli gave me write permission.

Is there something else I am overlooking?

I tried putting my password in /home/teirllm/CVSemacsdir/CVSROOT/passwd

How do I get recognized when I do C-x v v from emacs?  My public key I
guess?

Sincerely,

Luc.

Re: write access

[Stefan Monnier]

> I am trying to check in some changes to kill-whole-line.
> 
> I registered an SSH Shared key.
> 
> I managed to do:
> 
> cvs -z3 -d teirllm@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co .

So at least your SSH setup is just fine.

> without problems, but while trying to commit I got:
> 
> cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository

Maybe you should just wait a little longer ?


	Stefan

Re: write access

[Luc Teirlinck]

I rebuilt an entirely new CVS, to make sure that it was not some
remnant information from my old anon that was causing the problem.
>From my "entirely fresh" CVS, i now get a different error message:

subversions.gnu.org: Connection refused
cvs [commit aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
if any)

Sincerely,

Luc.

Re: write access

[Nick Roberts]

 > subversions.gnu.org: Connection refused
 > cvs [commit aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
 > if any)

You need export CVS_RSH=ssh or setenv CVS_RSH ssh

Nick

Re: write access

[Luc Teirlinck]

Nick Roberts wrote:

   You need export CVS_RSH=ssh

I did do that.  That was not the problem.  (Sorry if I sent this
twice.  I have no record in my mail archive file, and did not see it
on emacs devel, so I assume I accidentally erased my previous
reply without sending it.)

Sincerely,

Luc.

Re: write access

[Luc Teirlinck]

I now finally know why I did not get access from Emacs, but did from
the command line.  I start Emacs using Super-e, a command I bound
using the starfish window manager.  I was, of course, careful to start
a new version of Emacs, after putting:

export CVS_RSH=ssh

in my .bashrc, but I did not restart sawfish.  I should have thought
of that earlier.  Sorry for all the trouble.   Thanks to everybody who
offered suggestions.

Sincerely,

Luc.

write access

[Luc Teirlinck]

I might have done something stupid instead of being patient and
waiting for appropriate advice:

[bash2.05b.0 ~ 3 7] CVSROOT=teirllm@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs
cvs ci /home/teirllm/emacscvsdir/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog
Enter passphrase for RSA key 'teirllm@swt40.swt.com': 
Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding.

Log message unchanged or not specified
a)bort, c)ontinue, e)dit, !)reuse this message unchanged for remaining
dirs
Action: (continue) 
absolute pathname `/home/teirllm/emacscvsdir/emacs/lisp' illegal for
server
cvs commit: saving log message in /tmp/cvsOizMwe
[bash2.05b.0 ~ 3 8] 

Before that I was using VC in emacs.  Where do I go from here?
I will not try anything else in the meantime.

Sincerely,

Luc.

Re: write access

[Jason Rumney]

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:

> cvs ci /home/teirllm/emacscvsdir/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog

> absolute pathname `/home/teirllm/emacscvsdir/emacs/lisp' illegal for
> server

The error message means exactly what it says. You cannot use an
absolute pathname here. Instead, try:

cd /home/teirllm/emacscvsdir/emacs
cvs ci lisp/ChangeLog

Re: write access

[Andreas Schwab]

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:

|> Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding.

You might want to put this into ~/.ssh/config to avoid the warning:

Host subversions.gnu.org
  ForwardX11 no

(See ssh_config(5) for more information.)

Andreas.

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