Brad Chapman wrote: > > Ooops, it wasn't very happy with me trying to connect: > > $ export CVS_RSH='ssh' > $ export CVSROOT=':ext:chapmanb at alpha.bioinformatics.org:/cvsroot' > $ cvs checkout piper > chapmanb's password: > cvs server: Updating piper > cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository > `/cvsroot/piper': Permission denied > cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/piper' > cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up > > Not sure what the problem is. Any thoughts? You weren't in the group "cvs". I just fixed that, so give 'er another go. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+