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Re: Bug Report: CVS often fails in scripts under Cygwin
- To: Josh Schulte <jschulte at equilibrium dot com>, "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Bug Report: CVS often fails in scripts under Cygwin
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:46:50 -0700 (PDT)
--- Josh Schulte <jschulte@equilibrium.com> wrote:
> When I use CVS in scripts under Cygwin I often get "cvs: permission denied".
> This happens in perl and shell scripts. Not every cvs command will fail. But
> the ones that fail seem to consistently fail. For instance the following
> script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cvs edit build.txt
> echo "test" > build.txt
> cvs commit -m test build.txt
>
> gives the following output:
>
> cvs: permission denied
> cvs: permission denied
>
> I ran this on Solaris to verify that I wasn't missing something, and of
> course it worked.
>
> I've included my configuration information below.
>
> *********************************************************
>
> Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Wed Sep 20 15:30:41 2000
>
> WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195
>
> Path: .
> /usr/local/bin
> /usr/local/bin
> /bin
> /c/development/Tools/common/bin
> /c/WINNT/system32
> /c/WINNT
>
> SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
> WinDir: C:\WINNT
>
> HOME = `/c/Documents and Settings/Josh_Schulte'
> PWD = `/eq/dev'
> USER = `josh_schulte'
>
Your HOME has spaces in it. I suggest that you:
mkdir /home
mount c:/Documents\ and\ Settings /home
export HOME=/home/Josh_Schulte
This may or may not solve your problem.
Cheers,
=====
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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