[lug] CVS question

[Davide Del Vento]

2 trivial things to start with, before looking at more sophisticated issues:

1) check the ant xml to see if he hard-coded his username in the
checkout task :-o

2) do you have a working account on that CVS server?

HTH,
;Dav


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 14:24, Kenneth D Weinert <kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:
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> I'm having to try to rebuild some old code at work prior to changing it
> and one of the ant build steps is to check out some code from CVS.
>
> The original author no longer works here, hasn't for about 5 years, and
> his user id is no longer valid.
>
> When I try to check stuff out (as me) I get the message:
>
> Fatal error, aborting.
> <username>: no such user
>
> Any pointers as to what to look up to understand and resolve the problem
> will be greatly appreciated. I'm not exactly sure what to search for as
> I'm not logged in as that user, but he was the last one to check in the
> code.
>
> - --
> Ken
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