Re: how to prevent cvs from locking?

[Jim Hyslop]

DC <address@hidden> wrote:

First of all, please do not make up email addresses. If you're concerned 
about spam, create a throw-away gmail or hotmail address, then abandon 
it one your concerns have been answered.

> using rhel 3
>
> we do not want cvs to create any lock files.

Yes, you do. Otherwise your repository *will* get corrupted.

> this has been working for a while, but the last two users that we added are all 
> creating lock
> files, and it is preventing them from being able to update, or do anything else 
> for that matter.

You're looking at this the wrong way around. The problem is not that the 
lock files exist. CVS automatically creates them and cleans them up, and 
has been all along. You just haven't noticed it until now.

Your real problem is, something is preventing CVS from cleaning up the 
lock files when it's done.

What version of the client and server are you using? Can you 
consistently reproduce the problem? Exactly what command sequence 
reproduces the problem, and exactly what error message are you getting?

--
Jim