Date: 11 Dec 2000 10:33:16 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: James FitzGibbon <james@ehlo.com> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <xzpitorxpyb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: James FitzGibbon's message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:48:18 -0500" References: <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> <200012110043.eBB0hYV06366@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20001210165229.A84706@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001210234818.A73780@ehlo.com>
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James FitzGibbon <james@ehlo.com> writes: > This can lead to problems based on the local programs that the site runs. > CVSup is notorious for this -- if the server it is attempting to connect to > is unavailable, it will just sit and retry for hours. I've had systems that > were found to have 20+ copies of cvsup running, all retrying a server whose > name had inadvertently been removed from local DNS. That's what the -1 option is, and if you use the cvsup-mirror port, you'll find it runs cvsup with -1. If you don't, you only have yourself to blame... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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