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Solving the permission denied error when updating Drupal via CVS
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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If you update Drupal via cvs by doing the following kind of command (here I am updating a Drupal 6.4 installation to Drupal 6.5):
$ cvs update -dP -r DRUPAL-6-5
you might run into the following error:
...<br />cvs update: Updating scripts<br />cvs update: Updating sites<br />cvs update: Updating sites/all<br />cvs update: Updating sites/default<br />P sites/default/default.settings.php<br />cvs [update aborted]: cannot open .new.oxI8ko: Permission denied
The update is aborting because the cvs program does not have permission to create a temporary file in the sites/default directory of your Drupal installation. Notice there's no "w" in the permissions for the "default" directory:
$ ls -l sites/<br />total 0<br />drwxr-xr-x 6 jvandyk staff 204 Oct 22 10:07 CVS<br />drwxr-xr-x 4 jvandyk staff 136 Oct 22 09:18 all<br />dr-xr-xr-x 6 jvandyk staff 204 Oct 22 09:20 default
So the solution is to give write access temporarily to the user running cvs, then take it away again after the update:
$ chmod u+w sites/default<br />$ cvs update -dP -r DRUPAL-6-5<br />...<br />cvs update: Updating scripts<br />cvs update: Updating sites<br />cvs update: Updating sites/all<br />U sites/all/README.txt<br />cvs update: Updating sites/default<br />U sites/default/default.settings.php<br />cvs update: Updating themes<br />...<br />[cvs proceeds with no errors]<br />$ chmod u-w sites/default
The chmod u+w command means "give the user who owns this file write permission" and chmod u-w means "take write permission away from the user who owns the file."
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