From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:46:22 +0000 (-0400) Subject: response X-Git-Tag: 3.20091022~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=14526ef59772c0e1b60866b8149e478d82a4b70f;p=ikiwiki.git response --- diff --git a/doc/forum/Cannot_write_to_commitlock.mdwn b/doc/forum/Cannot_write_to_commitlock.mdwn index a5d4bf440..81b0cdeb3 100644 --- a/doc/forum/Cannot_write_to_commitlock.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/Cannot_write_to_commitlock.mdwn @@ -14,4 +14,11 @@ Now ~/ianbarton/.ikiwiki exists and is owned and writable by me. I have tried to Ian. - +> I'm guessing that this is some kind of permissions problem, +> and that the error message is just being misleading. +> +> When you push the changes to the server, what user is +> git logging into the server as? If that user is different +> than `ian` (possibly due to using git-daemon?), the post-commit +> wrapper needs to be setuid to `ian`. This ensures that ikiwiki +> runs as you and can see and write to the files. --[[Joey]]