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Re: cannot commit

From: Tom Brown <brown_at_esteem.com>
Date: 2005-08-31 03:42:28 CEST

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 17:24, Patrick Burleson wrote:
> On 8/30/05, Tom Brown <brown@esteem.com> wrote:
> > I made the directory world writeable then received this error on
> > check-in: svn: MERGE request failed on '/svn/est/modeminit195e'
> > svn: Can't open file '/usr/local/estsvn/est/db/write-lock': Permission
> > denied
> >
> > So I made the write-lock file world writeable and got this error:
> > svn: MERGE request failed on '/svn/est/modeminit195e'
> > svn: Can't move '/usr/local/estsvn/est/db/transactions/86-1.txn/rev' to
> > '/usr/local/estsvn/est/db/revs/87': Permission denied
> >
> > So I did a 'chmod -R o+w /usr/local/estsvn' and now I can do a check-in.
> >
> > I don't like having my whole repsitory world writeable. Is there a way to
> > fix this? I noticed that apache2 creates directories as nobody:svn. The
> > nobody user is in the svn group so it should be able to create
> > directories in the repository without the directories being world
> > writeable. Is there a reason why it can't?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
>
> Have you tried adding the group sticky bit?
>
> chmod g+s
>
> This will ensure that the group permissions are propogated to
> subdirectories and files when new ones are created.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Patrick
>
The group sticky bit was already set on /usr/local/estsvn and all
subdirectories.

Thanks,
Tom

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