[MITgcm-devel] Lock Directory

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 12:56 -0500, Baylor Fox-Kemper wrote:
> Does anyone know why I am locked out from checkins?
>    -Baylor
> 
> 
> cvs commit: failed to create lock directory for 
> `/u/gcmpack/MITgcm/pkg/mom_vecinv' 
> (/u/gcmpack/MITgcm/pkg/mom_vecinv/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs commit: lock failed - giving up
> cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up
> cvs commit: saving log message in /tmp/cvsnMNmOg


Hi Baylor,

Are you sure that you checked out that copy of MITgcm using the cvs-
over-ssh method:

  CVSROOT=:ext:mitgcm.org:/u/gcmpack

and not the cvs-over-pserver method?  You can check by looking at:

  more MITgcm/pkg/mom_vecinv/CVS/Root

which should return a string starting with ":ext:" and not
":pserver:".  

And if you did use pserver, the quickest thing to do is to check out a
second whole copy of MITgcm using CVS-with-ssh and then just copy over
your modified files and check them in.

I also looked at the permissions of /u/gcmpack/MITgcm/pkg/mom_vecinv and
everything there seems to be in order.

Ed

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