Question

I fellows! When I click on the > to view differences between to revisions I always get a <> Difference even do edits are made. Looking at my Apache log I noticed that RCS was having trouble. Apache log for a WebHome page difference :

[Fri Dec 03 16:33:53 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr/bin/co: /c/temp/T0001248: cannot create\n [Fri Dec 03 16:33:53 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] rcsdiff: c:/twiki/data/Main/WebHome.txt,v: co failed\n

RCS commands like CO, CI or RCSDIFF work within Cygwin. I guess that a path must be malformed but I've checked everything and followed the cookbook scrupulously. Of what setting does RCSDIFF depends on within TWiki? Could it be a security matter? My .htaccess.txt file is still commented with the .txt extension and I've kept with basic "as is" security following setup.

I've attached my testenv results as an HTML file to this topic. Here are a few comments in regards to the results. Notice in the PATH_INFO section that there is a warning regarding locks. I can assure you that all files have bin relock with system user… I don’t understand why this warning keeps popping up. The other comment concerns PERL5SHELL environment variable path. Within Windows env. var. this variable is correctly set to c:/cygwin/bin/bash –c. This is confirmed within cygcheck.

I’m administrator of my workstation and have full access (RWXD) to my temps folders. Either trough Windows File Explorer or Cygwin.

Thanks

Environment

-- SebastienNault - 03 Dec 2004

Answer

Seeing the testenv HTML as per SupportGuidelines would be useful - testenv does check for writeability of various places. Key question: does c:\temp exist, and is it writeable?

-- RichardDonkin - 05 Dec 2004