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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  Is that totally outdated?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.

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