From owner-cvs-all Sun Nov 8 15:24:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06135 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 15:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06127 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 15:24:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA13359; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 00:23:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA07522; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 00:23:49 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981109002348.57003@follo.net> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 00:23:48 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: John Polstra , luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ouch... References: <199811081211.NAA26162@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199811082107.NAA29499@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199811082107.NAA29499@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:07:49PM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 Is that totally outdated? > 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