Hi, I'm trying to set up a validation script using the commitinfo handler for cvs. However although my tests work for validating files, in situ it doesnt work as I have found that the temporary cvs file that is supposed to be written to the repository is not written. ( I found this out by inserting a system("/bin/sh") at suitable point in the script, and then looking at the filesystem ). My code always fails reporting a File not found error. ok, first thing that comes to mind is that its a permissions issue. However I seem to be in the right groups , and I am able to commit files to the repository otherwise when commitinfo has not been modified ( i.e cvs process has write access to the repository ). The other thing that comes to mind is that it could be a config issue, since I am using a cvs instance recently set up by me , not the main development cvs that we use. Any help gratefully received. Mark here are some outputs that might be useful. xinet.d info service cvspserver2 { disable = no socket_type = stream wait = no user = cvs group = cvs log_type = FILE /var/log/cvspserver2 protocol = tcp env = '$HOME=/home/cvs' # bind = 10.10.10.10 # log_on_failure += USERID port = 2402 server = /usr/bin/cvs server_args = -f --allow-root=/home/mswinson/cvs pserver } permissions on directory testsandbox drwxrwxr-x 3 mswinson mswinson 4096 Dec 19 13:00 . drwxrwxrwx 4 cvs cvs 4096 Dec 14 12:00 .. -r--r--r-- 1 mswinson mswinson 3809 Dec 14 16:09 devprocess.html,v drwxrwxr-x 2 mswinson mswinson 4096 Dec 19 13:00 dir -r--r--r-- 1 mswinson mswinson 2092 Dec 14 16:09 emergency.html,v -r--r--r-- 1 mswinson mswinson 2027 Dec 14 16:09 emergency-invalid.html,v -r--r--r-- 1 mswinson mswinson 6337 Dec 14 16:09 intro.html,v -r--r--r-- 1 mswinson mswinson 1147 Dec 14 15:59 newfile,v -r--r--r-- 1 mswinson mswinson 4841 Dec 14 16:09 projects.html,v -r--r--r-- 1 mswinson mswinson 175 Dec 14 14:11 test2.txt,v -r--r--r-- 1 mswinson mswinson 579 Dec 14 13:43 testfile.txt,v -r-xr-xr-x 1 mswinson mswinson 35212 Dec 14 16:09 trade.cgi,v -r-xr-xr-x 1 mswinson mswinson 35934 Dec 14 17:06 trade-invalid.cgi,v groups mswinson cvs technical _______________________________________________ info-cvs mailing list info-cvs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs