* Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> [020828 16:57]:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Rasputin wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone spot the deliberate mistake here?
> > (Is this possibly a problem on the server end?)
> 
> No doubt it is.

:| it might be obvious to you, but it wasn't to me...

> > 1rasputin@nailbunny:pkgsrc$ cvs update
> > can't create temporary directory
> > No space left on device
> 
> > 1rasputin@nailbunny:pkgsrc$ mkdir ~/tmp
> > 1rasputin@nailbunny:pkgsrc$ cvs -T ~/tmp update
> > can't create temporary directory
> > No space left on device
> 
> The -T argument specifies the temporary directory *on* *the* *server*.
> You really can't use that profitably unless you have an account on the
> server, so you know where the free space is.

Ack, that explains it.

A mate suggested I set:

export CVSREADONLYFS=1

in my environment , that worked.

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