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Re: svn: Can't open file '/home/www/socalgraph-dev/.svn/lock': Permission denied

From: Graham Anderson <grahama_at_siren.cc>
Date: 2006-07-28 07:05:36 CEST

thanks :)
now my post-commit script is working

g

On Jul 27, 2006, at 2:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jul 27, 2006, at 07:43, Graham Anderson wrote:
>
>> I can run my post-commit script successfully as root...but not as
>> user svn
>>
>> The post-commit script executes an 'svn update' on a website on
>> the server
>> As I am running subversion as user, 'svn' , how do I grant 'svn'
>> privileges to run the script ?
>
> From the error message, it sounds like it's not complaining about
> being unable to run the script -- it's saying it can't write to
> parts of the working copy you're updating. Is that working copy
> owned by svn? Likely at least parts of it are now owned by root, if
> you ran the update command as root as you say you did. So you
> should fix the ownership of the working copy so it's entirely owned
> by your svn user:
>
> sudo chown -R svn /home/mysite-dev/www
>
> or
>
> sudo chown -R svn /home/www/socalgraph-dev
>
> whatever the path is.
>
> Then, never run the update script using any user other than your
> svn user, or you'll have to do the above all over again.
>
>
>> This is the script:
>> #!/bin/bash
>> /home/svn/repository/hooks/update-dev
>>
>>
>> This is the compiled 'c' script:
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>> int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
>> {
>> system("/usr/local/bin/svn update /home/mysite-dev/
>> www");
>> }
>>
>>
>> The 'post-commit' script and update-dev are owned by user , 'svn'
>> -rwsr-sr-x 1 svn svn 50 Jul 25 20:06 post-commit
>> -rwsr-sr-x 1 svn svn 13789 Jul 27 00:22 update-dev
>>
>>
>>
>> 'svn' is a member of the correct group, mysite-devgrp
>>
>> $ pico /etc/group
>> mysite-devgrp:x:501:mysite-dev,svn
>> $ pwd
>> /home/mysite-dev/www
>> $ groups
>> users mysite-devgrp
>

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