Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Re: [ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal/plugins/gryphon .cvsignor

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:34:47 -0600
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:24:20PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> >   Added files:
> >     plugins/gryphon      .cvsignore AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog 
> >                          INSTALL Makefile.am NEWS README 
> >                          autogen.sh configure.in packet-gryphon.c 
> >                          packet-gryphon.h 
> 
> % cvs update -d |& tee /tmp/update.log
> guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx's password: 
> 
> 	...
> 
> cvs server: Updating plugins
> cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository
> `/usr/local/cvsroot/ethereal/plugins': Permission denied
> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/usr/local/cvsroot/ethereal/plugins'
> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Yup. /usr/local/cvsroot/ethereal/plugins and plugins/gryphon
are owned by the wrong group. (group 'gram' instead of 'cvs').

I went to pow.zing.org and chgrp'ed those two directories.

It should work now.

--gilbert