[rancid] Rancid and CVSWEB - cannot find CVS roots

Tue Sep 28 17:32:59 UTC 2010

I fixed it.  It was a group issue.  I had to add apache and rancid to my
netadm group.

George Nussbaum | Sr. Systems Administrator | L-3 Communications SDS
10E Commerce Way, Woburn, MA 01801
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George.Nussbaum at L-3com.com <mailto:George.Nussbaum at L-3com.com>  |
www.sds.l-3com.com <http://www.sds.l-3com.com/> 

From: Mahaffey, Brian [mailto:bmahaffey at pelco.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 1:30 PM
To: Nussbaum, George @ SDS; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: RE: [rancid] Rancid and CVSWEB - cannot find CVS roots

You may have missed a step in the configuration process. Usually I go
back and verify each step and come across something that I missed and
everything works perfectly. Sorry but the error output isn't very
helpful for a router guy like me. 

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 126299 Sep 15  2006 /var/www/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi

@CVSrepositories = (
        'local'   => ['Local Repository',
'/mnt/iscsi/apps/rancid/data/CVS'],

From: George.Nussbaum at l-3com.com [mailto:George.Nussbaum at l-3com.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:09 AM
To: Mahaffey, Brian; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: RE: [rancid] Rancid and CVSWEB - cannot find CVS roots

Thanks for the tip, but that didn't fix my issue as the appropriate
permissions are set.

Any other ideas??

George Nussbaum | Sr. Systems Administrator | L-3 Communications SDS
10E Commerce Way, Woburn, MA 01801
O: 781.939.3866 | M: 781.985.5081 | F: 781.939.3996 | Email:
George.Nussbaum at L-3com.com | www.sds.l-3com.com
<http://www.sds.l-3com.com/> 

From: Mahaffey, Brian [mailto:bmahaffey at pelco.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:26 PM
To: Nussbaum, George @ SDS; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: RE: [rancid] Rancid and CVSWEB - cannot find CVS roots

Mine was a permission problem with cvsweb.cgi

chmod a+x cvsweb.cgi

From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
[mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of
George.Nussbaum at l-3com.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:05 AM
To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: [rancid] Rancid and CVSWEB - cannot find CVS roots

I'm seeing some weirdness with CVSWEB.  When I run my
http://server/rancid I get:

"Error: No valid CVS roots found! See @CVSrepositories in the
configuration file"

I looked in my httpd error log and found this:

"Root '/usr/local/rancid/CVS' defined in @CVSrepositories is not a
directory, entry ignored at /var/www/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi line 481."

Now I know that the directory does exist.  Any ideas why this is
happening?

George Nussbaum | Sr. Systems Administrator | L-3 Communications SDS
10E Commerce Way, Woburn, MA 01801
O: 781.939.3866 | M: 781.985.5081 | F: 781.939.3996 | Email:
George.Nussbaum at L-3com.com | www.sds.l-3com.com
<http://www.sds.l-3com.com/> 

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