Getting my old repositories to work on a new server.
To do so on my Ubuntu based server I did the following:
# apt-get install cvs
# groupadd cvs
# useradd -g cvs -d /var/cvs cvs
Then I copied my repositories into /var/cvs and changed permissions:
# chown -R cvs.cvs /var/cvs
# useradd -g cvs -m stefano
# chmod 774 /var/cvs
I had also to
# mkdir /var/lock/cvs
# chown cvs.cvs /var/lock/cvs
# chmod 774 /var/lock/cvs
But after I still run into permissions problems when trying to update. So I did:
# chown -R cvs.cvs /var/cvs
# chmod -R ug+rwx /var/cvs
and the update worked without warnings.