Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 13:07:49 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ouch... Message-ID: <199811082107.NAA29499@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199811081211.NAA26162@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199811081211.NAA26162@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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In article <199811081211.NAA26162@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>,
Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> Ok, hope i have not caused some major screwup...
>
> while doing a commit, i lost the keyboard in X, and had to kill the
> telnet session to freefall. As a result, some lock files had remained
> in the directories i was working on in /home/ncvs (#cvs....).
> Because they did not go away and i think would prevent other to
> work and they were apparently just locks, I ended up hand-removing
> them. How should i behave next time ?
Thanks for asking. :-)
You should report the problem to peter@freebsd.org and
jdp@freebsd.org, and let one of them fix it. Committers should never
do any direct operations on the files under /home/ncvs. There are too
many ways to screw things up even worse.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
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