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

[sankar at telocity dot com]

Thanks Simon for your quick response. I will try and
hopefully it should also work for me.

Regards
Sankar


On Mon, 18 March 2002, "Simoncc" wrote:

> 
> 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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