Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 00:23:48 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ouch... Message-ID: <19981109002348.57003@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199811082107.NAA29499@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:07:49PM -0800 References: <199811081211.NAA26162@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199811082107.NAA29499@austin.polstra.com>
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On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:07:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > 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. I was once advised to also include a Cc: to root@freefall, though I've not seen that repeated for quite some time. Is that totally outdated? > Committers should never do any direct operations on the files under > /home/ncvs. There are too many ways to screw things up even worse. Amen. I administer a couple of other CVS repositories, and it is amazing how much can go wrong with just a small repository and limited use. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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