I suspected a file was left open and caused the commit to fail. This proved
to be correct. Our perl scrips was the culpret. We failed to close a file
handle doh!
Thanks for the help.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Pavluk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 6:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Unable to commit. Can not rename .new. file.
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> I receive this error during a checkin using WinCVS.
>
> cvs [commit aborted]: cannot rename file .new.mse690Search.asp to
> mse690Search.asp: File exists
>
> I am running 1.10.6 on solaris 2.61 server
> WinCVS 1.1b12 client on windows 95
> Work area on a NT4 server share. ( shared by developers )
>
> Examining the source code it appears cvs attempts to
> create a .new.file with keyword replacements
> delete the orginal file using unlink
> rename .new. file to file
>
> So....
> If the unlink fails this error will occurr.
>
> The code tests for writability but this is not sufficient. A file
> can be writable but not removable.
>
> Anyone come accross this before.
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