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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:25:28 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net>
Subject:   Re: CVS filling /tmp (was Re: FreeBSD CVS Question (answered!))
Message-ID:  <20040114152528.GU31823@starjuice.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040114101938.46433C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20040114065541.GE39353@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040114101938.46433C-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On (2004/01/14 10:21), Robert Watson wrote:

> While I'm not quite sure of the rhyme or reason, what's occuring is that
> CVS is creating a mirror directory layout of the subtree you're operating
> on in /tmp.  This means you'll actually likely run out of inodes before
> space, FWIW.  I usually set TMPDIR to point it at /usr/tmp to avoid this
> being a problem.

Yup, pretty much standard practice when setting up pserver in inetd is:

cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs -T /var/tmp ... pserver

Ciao,
Sheldon.



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