Hi all, I have a simple cvs question.  I try to 'cvs checkout modules' and
the message is 'waiting for <user name> lock on $CVSROOT/CVSROOT'.  How
would I delete the lock or release it?

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Greg A. Woods
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 11:33 AM
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Subject: Re: CVS Source Repository


[ On Thursday, May 25, 2000 at 09:20:45 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS Source Repository
>
> How do you deal with getting atomic backups?  For example, what if someone
were
> commiting at the same time rsync or the backup is occurring?

        # echo "CVS backup in progress" > /etc/nologin
        # # wait for all CVS processes to die
        # dump -0uf /dev/rst0 /cvs
        # rm /etc/nologin

0.25 :-)

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