From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 21 9: 2:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3591A37B491 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1LH1sR40472; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:01:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f1LH1sA18824; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:01:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:01:54 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102211701.f1LH1sA18824@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk Subject: Re: cvsup confusion In-Reply-To: <20010221104227.A8439@tethys.valhalla.net> References: <20010221104227.A8439@tethys.valhalla.net> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20010221104227.A8439@tethys.valhalla.net>, Mark Drayton wrote: > I wrote a small script to cvsup stable, ports and doc every > couple of days by running cvsup > for each > collection. Somehow this script appears to have 'gone wrong' leaving > several copies of cvsup running at once. Is running more than one > copy of cvsup at once likely to have damaged /usr/src or /usr/ports? I don't know whether it would mess up your files or not, but it's definitely something that won't work right in general. Check out cvsup's "-l" option in the cvsup man page to keep this from happening. Or run it under lockf(1). > Sorry if these are common questions - I searched the archives but > couldn't find anything. Searching the archives is fine. But don't forget, there's a great big manual page too. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message