From owner-cvs-all Sun Nov 8 13:08:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21949 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:08:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21942 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA22871; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:07:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA29499; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:07:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-Id: <199811082107.NAA29499@austin.polstra.com> X-Authentication-Warning: austin.polstra.com: jdp owned process doing -bs To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: Ouch... In-Reply-To: <199811081211.NAA26162@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199811081211.NAA26162@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 13:07:49 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article <199811081211.NAA26162@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo 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 -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message