Aegir-Dirs

1. chown www:www /var/lib/aegir/cvs

Aegir-Dirs is required for those that wish to have CVS (concurrent version system). If you experience the below error message make sure you do the following two steps.

• If Aegir-Dirs is not installed:

  • Download Aegir-Dirs from Midgard-Project.org to your root directory.
  • # tar zxvf Aegir-1.0-dirs.tgz
    You should now have the files installed to /var/lib/aegir.

• Make sure permissions are set correctly on /var/lib/aegir/cvs directory. The HTTP Server requires write permissions.

OpenBSD Permissions

chown www:www /var/lib/aegir/cvs

Error Message
please configure write access to /var/lib/aegir/cvs
e.g. mkdir /var/lib/aegir/cvs
chown nobody nobody /var/lib/aegir/cvs for Red Hat 6
chown apache apache /var/lib/aegir/cvs for Red Hat 7 chown www-data www-data /var/lib/aegir/cvs for Debian