CVS and group permissions

[Rodan]

Hello, on our DEV box ( k360 hp-ux 11.0) we are using (CVS) 1.11.22.We have several developers belonging to different groups yet working on the same projects.The problem is , when one of them opens and saves a project they block the other developers from re-opening that project.
Is there a simple solution to this.

Thanks

[Christian Tremblay]

you need to set the set-group-ID-on-execution bit on the repository directories (see chmod(1)) so that newly-created files and directories get the group-ID of the parent directory rather than that of the current process.)

Chris

[Wouter Jagers]

If you mean they are permanently changing the file ownerships, try setting the setgroupid on the directory using chmod 02xxx, xxx being your 'regular' permissions (for example 'chmod 02755 /cvsroot/stuff').

If you mean other developers can't open the project while someone is actually running a cvs command, that's normal. As far as I know, when someone is performing an update (saving a project), other developers cannot read or write while that is happening. An error like 'waiting for john's lock in /cvsroot/stuff' should get logged somewhere, and cvs should retry automatically in 30 secs or something.

hope that helps,
cheers