On Mit, 11 Jun 2003, Joerg Mayer wrote:
-> Connecting to subversions.gnu.org(199.232.41.2):2401 can't create temporary directory /mnt/ramfs/cvs-serv22847 Permission denied
are you sure thats local? usually thats a message from the cvs server, it seems to be a temporary load problem (out of memory on the tmpfs). the client is pretty dumb and does not create a directory in $TMP.
So far I'd assumed that CVS does not try to access files outside my local cvs tree. I'm especially astonished that the client allows access to absolute file/path names.
the client does not allow access to absolute pathnames as far as I know. the protocol works the opposite way (so its much easier to get access to a file outside CVSROOT on the server if its not secured properly).
It this behaviour acceptable? I think not, but then, that's just my personal paranoid opinion.
if you don't trust the CVS server, then better don't use it (and especially don't compile and run the software you got from the CVS server :) ). -- Dirk