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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:00:29 -0700
From:      Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_softdep.c softdep.h
Message-ID:  <20000625210029.A79299@azazel.zer0.org>
In-Reply-To: <3953978B.D3EAD145@3-cities.com>; from kstewart@3-cities.com on Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:59:55AM -0700
References:  <200006221927.MAA49212@freefall.freebsd.org> <39532EE4.B536C551@3-cities.com> <86wvjgbu09.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <3953978B.D3EAD145@3-cities.com>

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On 2000-06-23 09:59 -0700, Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote:
> Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote:
> > At Fri, 23 Jun 2000 02:33:24 -0700,
> > Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote:
> > > This isn't working. Because of the links, I'm getting
> > >
> > > Cannot calculate checksum for "/usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c": No
> > > such file
> > >  or directory
> > 
> > Obviously, you can remove those two symlinks and do a CVSup again.
> > (You could run it with -s option to save the time)
> 
> True! My point is that the update isn't occuring. I just happened to
> be sitting at the computer when the message flashed by on the window.
> I would have never seen it otherwise. I don't usually scan the log for
> a cvsup failure. Perhaps, this is something I should be doing but
> people get used to cvsup always working. The file may be bad but cvsup
> worked. This time cvsup didn't update the files. If people run cvsup
> as an unattended cron job, they will never see the two failure
> messages.

That sounds like an awfully good reason not to run it as a cron job.
Instead, why not put it in /etc/periodic/daily?  Then it will get
logged and mailed to root.

Greg
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