permissions issue with berkeley db (again)

[Simon Butler <si...@icmethods.com>]

hi, sorry i know this issue has come up a few times on the list but i  
still
can't figure it out :(

i have umask 002 for all the users on the system and i
have g+s  
permissions on the repos. all the users are in the same
group as
the repositary owner. the issue seems to be when my co- 
developer comes in
with a commit using sv+ssh, the log
file in the db dir ends up with the wrong
permissions. i had him set  
umask 002 on his remote account but this doesn't
have
any effect either..

any clues would be most appreciated!!

a more
complete summary of the issue below..

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i'm using svn
1.2.3 and am sharing a repos with one other developer and
i keep getting
problems with the permissions on the repos

i get:

svn co
svn+ssh://st...@blah.com/repos/svn/nlm
Enter passphrase for key
'/users/steve/.ssh/id_rsa':
svn: Berkeley DB error for filesystem
/repos/svn/nlm/db while
checkpointing after Berkeley DB transaction:
DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svn: bdb:
/repos/svn/nlm/db/log.0000000003: log file open failed:
Permission denied
svn:
bdb: PANIC: Permission denied
svn: bdb: DB_ENV->log_put: 3: DB_RUNRECOVERY:
Fatal error, run database
recovery
svn: bdb: txn_checkpoint: failed to flush
the buffer cache
DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
'

when i
go to the server and try to recover the database i get

svnuser@blah repos/svn
12> svnadmin recover nlm
Repository lock acquired.
Please wait; recovering the
repository may take some time...
svnadmin: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
svnadmin: bdb: nlm/db/log.0000000003: log file open failed:
Permission
denied
svnadmin: bdb: PANIC: Permission denied
svnadmin: bdb:
DB_ENV->log_put: 3: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
svnadmin: bdb: txn_checkpoint: log failed at LSN [3 3819]
DB_RUNRECOVERY:
Fatal error, run database recovery
svnadmin: bdb: PANIC: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
error, run database
recovery
svnadmin: bdb: nlm/db/log.0000000003: log file
open failed: Permission
denied
svnadmin: bdb: PANIC: Permission denied
svnadmin: bdb: DB_ENV->log_put: 3: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database
recovery

and the problem seems to be that the nlm/db/log.0000000003 keeps
getting read only access after my friend has made an update

    8 -rw-r--r--
1 friend   users       3907 Mar  9 13:07
log.0000000003

my friend has umask
002 set and also the repos has g+s set on the dir

anyone know what i'm doing
wrong here? how can i stop these logfiles
from getting the wrong permissions?
thx!!