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Re: Getting lock during commit stalls cvs ci
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Jim Hyslop |
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Re: Getting lock during commit stalls cvs ci |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:58:55 -0500 |
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address@hidden wrote:
> I haven't run into this problem before:
>
> cvs ci -m "" reader/home/reader/scripts/perl/fetchall_wrp.pl
> cvs commit: [11:15:42] waiting for reader's lock in
> /usr/local/cvsroot/base/reader/home/reader/scripts/perl
>
> I suspected file permission trouble but checking the files I see they
> both belong to reader and the containing directory as well
>
> ls -la shows:
> drwxrwxr-x 4 reader users 2704 Jan 31 05:17 .
> drwxrwxr-x 10 reader users 2344 Jan 31 05:12 ..
> [...]
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 reader users 1698 Sep 23 2004
> /usr/local/cvsroot/base/reader/home/reader/scripts/perl/\
> fetchall_wrp.pl,v
>
> And it is root doing the commit anyway. I've enabled-rootcommit at
> compile time since its a single user machine, root and user are always
> the same thing.
- From a security perspective, running as root for general purpose
activities is a Really Bad Idea.
> Anyone know what the error means?
It's not a permission problem. Check for any stray files or directories
in the repository with names starting #cvs.rfl, #cvs.wfl, or #cvs.lock,
and remove them (make sure you aren't running any cvs processes, first,
though).
- --
Jim Hyslop
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