Re: Problem with svn cat

Jason Rust <jrust@rustyparts.com> writes:

> I'm trying to get chora (http://horde.org) up and running with
> subversion and keep hitting the following problem:
> When apache tries to run svn cat file:///path/to/file it gives the
> error:
> svn: Ran out of unique names
> svn: svn_io_open_unique_file: unable to make name for ''

This is caused by a permissions error. You probably don't have
permission to write tmpfiles in the current working directory.

>
> Is there a directory that svn uses for its temporary files that needs to
> be writable by apache for this to work?

This is a known bug, already fixed, but waiting for a new APR (Apache)
release before we can roll out the fix. The fix creates tmpfiles in a
proper system tmpdir, like /tmp.

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Received on Fri Oct 17 00:34:58 2003