From owner-cvs-all Sun Nov 8 15:33:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06999 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 15:33:41 -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 PAA06994 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 15:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA00664; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 15:33:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA07584; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 15:33:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19981109002348.57003@follo.net> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 15:33:20 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: Ouch... Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 08-Nov-98 Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:07:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: >> 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. > > 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 Is that totally outdated? No, it's not outdated -- it's a good idea. Normally either Peter or I is around and paying attention, but not always. 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