OT: cvs/CVSROOT permissions

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:14:20PM -0700, Andrew Stuart wrote:
> I know this really isnt the place for this question, but in the past
> many OT questions have been answered.

No good deed goes unpunished.
 
> I am working on a local cvs repo, and everytime someone commits to
> CVSROOT for one reason or another, it removes the execute privilages
> off of the 'processing' scripts. I can go back in and chmod +x each
> file after every commit (which isnt that often) but that gets lame 
> after a while, not to mention im not always around.
> 
> So the question really is, does anyone know of an automagic solution
> other then a cron job to keep the scripts +x?

For all things cvs(1), run (don't walk) to http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/

I believe the answer to your question is at:

    http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#CVS_keeps_changing_file_permissions__why_does_it_do_that_

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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