From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 11 3:40:42 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 03:40:38 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6FE037B69F; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 03:40:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785506E2F93; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:35:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA54340; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:33:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: James FitzGibbon Cc: "David O'Brien" , Robert Watson , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab References: <200012110043.eBB0hYV06366@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20001210165229.A84706@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001210234818.A73780@ehlo.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Dec 2000 10:33:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: James FitzGibbon's message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:48:18 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James FitzGibbon 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