[Xastir] xastir problems

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 08:16:18AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Denton K Larson wrote:
> 
> > dlarson at dlarson-deskdell:~/src$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir co xastir
> > cvs checkout: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
> 
> You must have done the cvs checkout last time as root.  You probably have a ~/src/xastir directory and contents that are owned by root.
> 
> You can try (as a normal user):
> 
>      cd ~/src
>      sudo rm -rf xastir
> 
> to get rid of of your src/xastir directory so that the cvs checkout command will work again for you as a normal user.

Or

  cd ~/src
  sudo chown -R dlarson:dlarson .

(assumning your user ID and group are "dlarson"), to change permissions and
ownership of all files in src to yourself.  Save you doing a full cvs checkout
all over again.

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