[ECOS] Re: cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/nohome): No suc h file or directory

[Andrew Lai]

Yes!! The solution works need to add -l as shown below:

cvs -l -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/ecos -z 9 co -P ecos

At 06:51 PM 3/18/02 +0100, Koeller, T. wrote:
>Right, that works for me, too (although I dont quite understand why...).
>
>Thomas
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Simoncc [mailto:simoncc@ms46.url.com.tw]
>Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:18 PM
>To: sankar@telocity.com
>Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
>Subject: [ECOS] Re: cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/nohome): No such
>file or directory
>Importance: High
>
>
>Hello Sankar & all guys,
>     well, my cvs is working now.
>I did not change any environment variables.
>I think cvs server there should be set to read-only mode such that
>the history file could not created there.
>Try to add a option '-l' into your cvs lines...
>i.e.
>     cvs -l -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/ecos -z 9 co -P ecos
>now it's downloading ...
>
>Simon
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <sankar@telocity.com>
>To: <simoncc@ms46.url.com.tw>
>Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 6:05 PM
>Subject: cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/nohome): No such file or
>directory
>
>
>Hello Simon,
>
>            I have same problem as yours and I saw
>your post on the ECOS mail archive. I am using windows
>2000 professional and I have installed Wincvs1.3.7.1
>and I have also installed Python and TCL. I am able
>to login to the CVS server but when I eexcute the following command
>cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/ecos -
>z 6 co -P ecos
>I am getting the following error
>cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/nohome): No such
>file or directory.
>
>Is there any environment variable need to be set??
>Can you please help me. I am unable to understand what
>Andrew has mentioned in his email post.
>
>Thanks in Advance
>
>Sankar
>
>
>
>
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