Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:37:25 +0200: > [...] the cronjob of backport.pl was running simultaneously on > svn-qavm2 (old machine) and svn-qavm3 (new machine we're migrating to, > see [1]), creating a race. > > For now, I've just renamed the backport.pl script on qavm2, so it > can't be run from cron anymore.
Thanks for diagnosing and fixing the problem. For belt and braces we might do «mkdir ~svnsvn/src/svn/trunk/tools/dist/backport.pl» on the old machine to ensure that an errant 'svn up' wouldn't reintroduce the script run from cron. (I'd do this myself but I'm separated from my ssh keys right now)
